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Was Louisa May Alcott infatuated with Hawthorne (“a rat with women”), Emerson — and Thoreau?

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From a former Houghton Mifflin employee: “Even though the company dropped me like a creepy date when [expurgated], I feel a certain loss every time I see Hufty Mufty, Old Mother Mifflin, get passed around like some pimp’s tired goods.”

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Pangs for other places (abetted by Karen Olsson)

Man. I have gone through my periods of disenchantment with New York City, no doubt about that, but the visceral revulsion I’ve started to feel on waking and moving through my days is something new. Thus the quiet. Also, the redesign (a million thanks, Max), which hasn’t proved as motivational as I’d hoped. I know it’s not just where I . . .

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In the late poetry of Mark Strand, “The self is not unknowable and jettisoned, but unknowable and utterly present, which is worse.”

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Am I biased? Or is The High Hat one of few consistently engaging webzines? The current issue, published 11/14, is a pre-death homage to Robert Altman.

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