Archive for April, 2008



Rare Emily Dickinson photo(?) purchased on Ebay

Back in 2000 The New Yorker published a possible photograph of Emily Dickinson that scholar Philip Gura purchased on Ebay for an astonishingly low sum. Until the image surfaced, and still, the only authenticated portrait of the poet was the pensive and haunting Amherst College daguerreotype we all know. I remember seeing the “Talk of the Town” piece on Gura’s . . .

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The Ivy Lede

Autograf? Mon sequitur? Anec-gloat? I-gression? Help choose the best term for book reviewers’ lapses into self-congratulatory autobiography.

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