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Giving good gimmick

Granta at 30
To sustain a literary magazine over decades it pays to have a gimmick.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  June 08, 2009
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Swedish schnapps

The Martin Beck mysteries
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's Martin Beck mysteries are back in a fourth American printing.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  December 02, 2008
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Selected and otherwise

A sheaf of post-April poetry and poets
Simic is a poet not of big gloomy poems but of small glooms and fears that haunt our waking lives and disturb our sleep.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  May 13, 2008
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News to me

Robert Hass’s National Book Award
Notwithstanding the occasional university-press finalist (this year: David Kirby), the National Book Award for poetry is generally open to only a few American poets.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  December 11, 2007
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Rhyme schemes

Some 'Poetry Month' bon-bons
In honor of poetry month, these books have been plucked from the torrent.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  April 10, 2007
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Howling in Boston

This old towne
A city is small geography — even the City on the Hill, the Athens of America — to merit a poet laureate.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  April 04, 2007
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The pro

Robert Crais’s winning formula
During dinner parties nowadays, everyone, writers included, talks about movies. Rarely does a “serious” novel dominate conversation, but crime novels sometimes have a moment.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  February 27, 2007
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Reading with Paul Auster

Video: Paul Auster reads from Travels in the Scriptorium, January 30, 2007 at the Brattle Theatre
In his introduction to Paul Auster 's reading at the Brattle Theatre, poet and Phoenix contributor William Corbett compared Auster 's lastest novel, Travels in the Scriptorium , to an episode of the Twilight Zone .
By BOSTON.TV  |  February 17, 2007
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Just the facts

Frederick Seidel’s odd charms
Ooga-Booga is Frederick Seidel’s 12th book of poetry to appear since 1963. Frederick Seidel reads from Ooga-Booga (mp3)
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  February 13, 2007

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