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  • Stanza DCCXLVII Our problem is take the bank or split right now, do not go home, do not pack, nothing. 30 secs flat from now we are gone on our separate ways, that’s it. Let’s go make the Captain look like a hero. Isn’t this religious, ah yes. The eternal battle between good and evil, saint and […] theepicpoet 0 Comments June 13, 2012
  • Iconic Literary Man: Robert Penn Warren In honor of March Madness, which gets into full swing today, today’s Iconic Literary Man is the one and only Robert Penn Warren, founder of The Southern Review and graduate of the Literary Man’s beloved alma mater Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt will square off against the Vanderbilt of the North (Harvard), at 4:40 pm EST today, […] Literary Man 0 Comments March 15, 2012
  • Happy First Birthday, Literary Man! Begin Portrait of Madness: on February 25th, THE LITERARY MAN turned one. We, the faithful writers, couldn’t be more proud of how far we’ve come (some of those early posts were really embarassing, er, not that there aren’t a few clunkers every now and then), and we’re extremely thankful to each of you for your […] Verbal Vixen 0 Comments March 6, 2012
  • Iconic Literary Men: Willem de Kooning The MOMA is currently hosting a Willem de Kooning retrospective, which is one of the best exhibits in recent memory. It features hundreds of the artist’s works, presented chronologically from the beginning of his career to his death in 1997. It was interesting to see how dark and monochromatic many of his paintings were before […] Literary Man 0 Comments October 11, 2011
  • Iconic Literary Men: Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones is one of the most powerful writers working in English today, and this is an understatement. His books are formally experimental, frequently gothic, very funny, and brutally honest. The darkness of his art calls to mind the works of William Faulkner — a comparison of Faulkner’s LIGHT IN AUGUST to Stephen Graham […] Literary Man 0 Comments July 28, 2011
  • Iconic Literary Men: Jack London Literary Man 0 Comments April 28, 2011
  • On Punching Literary Graffiti Literary Man 0 Comments April 15, 2011
  • Iconic Literary Men: David Foster Wallace Lots of activity about David Foster Wallace with the publication of the PALE KING. Here’s Franzen’s piece in the NYer. A longer piece in NYmag. Esquire’s review of it. Michiko Kakutani’s review, as well.   Literary Man 0 Comments April 12, 2011
  • Iconic Literary Men: Ken Kesey                   “Of course, the best drugs ever were manufactured by the government.” – Ken Kesey (Interview with The Sun Times, 29 August 1999) Literary Man 0 Comments April 5, 2011
  • Iconic Literary Men: Julio Cortazar   Literary Man 0 Comments March 29, 2011

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