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By Anthony MadridI suppose there are mathematicians out there “working on prime numbers.” I don’t know if there are. There probably are. They’re putting on coffee at 11 o’clock at night. They’re getting upset at each other on email, cussing. Or adopti…
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By Erica JongMy friends are tired. / The ones who are married are tired / of being married. / The ones who are single are tired / of being single.
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This Once
By John Ashbery. . . or somebody’s going to get hurt. / For my sake, however, keep pealing to a minimum. / We’ll need the firewood you can pick up on the shore / of that lake.
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Poetry
Some Notes on Madame Bovary
By Lydia DavisNot long ago, I was chatting with an older friend who is a retired engineer and also something of a writer, but not of fiction. When he heard that I had just finished a translation of Madame Bovary, he said something like, “But Madame Bovary has already been translated. Why does there need to be another translation?”
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Letters & Essays
Life Death and Other Dreams
By James SchuylerThey lived like Shakers, with a slight difference: they didn’t leave anything out, and they didn’t let anyone in.
