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October 28, 2014
Dick Cavett once remarked that he read road signs backward. I didn’t think anyone else did that; but ever since I was a kid, I would reverse words on stores, street signs, people’s names, anything printed on the highway. It can get you into trouble, as well as amuse yo...
October 23, 2014
I have long admired the poet James Dickey. He was popular in the ‘60s with his muscular, fear-nothing lyrics in early books like Drowning with Others and Helmets, which vividly narrate his Army Air Force days in WWII and the Korean Conflict. I was a young reader when...
October 15, 2014
For years I’ve watched how trade publishers (and now university and many small press publishers) have narrowed their interest to writers who have acquired audiences from some other walk of life. Politicians, TV celebrities, talk radio hosts (including shock...