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Moby-Duck

At the outset, I had no intention of doing what I eventually did: quit my job, kiss my wife farewell, and ramble about the Northern Hemisphere aboard all manner… More

The Shadow Book

First are the kinds of shadow books that fail to be written: the Africana Encyclopedia by Du Bois; the second novels of Jean Toomer or Ralph Ellison that never… More

Sissies’ Scrapbook

"It’s the awful power of having exactly what you want. I’m sure it’s not the freeing, liberating thing you expect it to be." More

Wallace Stevens in the World

At some point in the proceedings one of the more advanced of us got out the volume of Wallace Stevens’s Collected Poems in its handsome soft blue dust jacket… More