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WILLIAM CORBETT

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Plain spoken

Colm Tóibín's see-through prose
In American prose, there is a plain style, a child of the 20th century, descending from Hemingway and Cather. The best New Yorker writers — James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell, Janet Malcolm — have it.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  June 16, 2009

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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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Review: My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer

Strong spirits
Spicer believed that words are magic, that they have the power to "do" good and harm to people.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  December 19, 2008

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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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Sweet fallout

Philip Whalen’s word bombs
Philip Whalen (1923–2002) is a great American poet.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  January 14, 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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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

The best film about an American poet ever made
Ferrini and Riaf present the complex American literary figure Charles Olson in a clear way by focusing not on the facts of his life but on the facts of his work.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  September 12, 2007

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What was, and what might have been

Sara and Gerald Murphy in Williamstown
Sara and Gerald Murphy are back, and in the words of their friend Cole Porter, “What a swell party it is.”
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  November 08, 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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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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Nice shot

Joshua Prager revisits the home run
No home run in baseball history is as famous as Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard round the world.”
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  October 24, 2006

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Demon daze

Hart Crane complete
Hart Crane roared through his short, tormented, and doomed life.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  October 03, 2006

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All poetry is local

Heaney’s District encompasses the world
The poems achieved are graspable physical objects, not “infinite,” but so wide and so deep, and solid.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  July 11, 2006

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Imagining the truth

Filmmaker Robert Gardner’s ‘nonfiction’
Gardner’s work may be fact-based, but this has not crimped his imagination or his ability to tell stories.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  June 07, 2006

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Hearsay

One man’s ‘Bush Chronicle’
Eliot Weinberger is a New York editor, translator, anthologist, essayist, and throwback to the day when American literary intellectuals more regularly spoke their political views in print.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  March 07, 2006
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