Archive for November, 2007


Elizabeth Bishop and the U.S.A. School of Writing

“When I think about it,” Elizabeth Bishop once wrote to James Merrill, “it seems to me I’ve rarely written anything of value at the desk or in the room where I was supposed to be doing it — it’s always in someone else’s house, or in a bar, or standing up in the kitchen in the middle of the night. . . .

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Pynchon graffiti

Someone has been spray-painting Thomas Pynchon’s muted trumpet around the UC Santa Barbara campus.

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