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Ken Langer
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A Nest for Lalita
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Anne Frank and Me: Two Camps
“Dear Mom and Dad, I am still having a GREAt time.”
Like a refrain that echoes throughout a song or poem, these words begin almost all of the letters I wrote to my parents in 1961 and 1962 from Camp Walt Whitman in Pike, New Hampshire. The missives were stashed away in a box I unearthed from the bowls of my mother’s basement after she died. Now, three years later, I’m reading through the them –
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"Donal Ryan wrote "The Spinning Heart", a classic of Irish literature, a book that created an audience for his work. Since then, he has shuffled out a book a year to keep the cash flowing. His latest, "The Queen of Dirt Island" is not only a terrible "
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"The four books of William Trevor's I've read were written respectively in 1991, 1994, 1996 and, this one, 2002 which means he was in his sixties or seventies and probably past his prime. And not surprisingly perhaps why he seems a writer completely o"
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“O baffled, baulked, bent to the very earth, Oppressed with myself that I have dared to open my mouth, Aware now that, amid all the blab whose echoes recoil upon me, I have not once had the least idea who or what I am, But that before all my insolent poems, the real ME stands yet untouched, untold, altogether unreached, Withdrawn”
― Whitman: Poems
― Whitman: Poems
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