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...Eliot '04, e. e. cummings '15, James Laughlin '36, Robert Bly '50, Donald Hall'51 and Harold Brodkey '51 and many other poets all either contributed or worked for the Advocate, then moved on to bigger and better things in the larger literary world outside the Square...
...Eliot '04, e. e. cummings '15, James Laughlin '36, Robert Bly '50, Donald Hall '51, Frank O'Hara '50 and Harold Brodkey '51 and many other poets all either contributed or worked for the Advocate, then moved on to bigger and better things in the larger literary world outside the Square...
DIED. HAROLD BRODKEY, 65, famously self-absorbed New Yorker writer whose first novel took 27 years to deliver; of AIDS; in New York City. His massive, free-form work was known as "the greatest novel never written." Finally published in 1991 as The Runaway Soul, it received decidedly mixed reviews...
Over the whole range of literature, only erotica functions differently. If it works, sexual arousal is real, not imaginary. And if it doesn't work? The most recent example is Harold Brodkey's novel Profane Friendship (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 387 pages). The author tells of a long, intensely erotic affair between the narrator, an American novelist named Nino, and an Italian named Onni. The names are anagrams of each other -- different stirrings of the same ingredients, including the same...
Books: Harold Brodkey's erotic novel fails to appeal...