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“Pure imagining,” within limits: Ursula K. Le Guin on The Hainish Novels & Stories
“Because SF had been so very male-dominated, I thought for a while that I might not be able write it any more; but that was just cowardice.”

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Philip Roth, “Patrimony”
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Remembering John Ashbery: Writers pay tribute
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Novelist Thomas Mallon on why we need Mary McCarthy more than ever

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John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1991–2000 LOA N°301
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels & Stories (boxed set)
The Diaries of John Quincy Adams 1779-1848 (boxed set)
The Essential Hamilton: Letters & Other Writings (paperback)

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Writer of the Week John Ashbery
Ashbery’s is a poetry alert to all the possibilities of language and all the quicksilver movements of the mind as it engages with the most fleeting moments of experience.
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