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Cunningham's new novel promises to do for the poet Walt Whitman what The Hours did for Woolf. Specimen Days is due out in June, and if anything, Cunningham has only got more audacious and more, well, cunning in the past six years. Like The Hours, Specimen Days is a fugue in three parts: it consists of three stories, each set in a different historical period--the Industrial Revolution, the 1920s and the far future. And each is told in a different style: ghost story, hard-boiled mystery and science fiction. You read that right. The third section will...
...ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard Avedon EXHIBITIONS: Art that rocks! CINEMA: Back to a digital future BOOKS: A poet's pub crawl...
...quieter moments, I am pleased to find some of the higher songwriting peaks of Tweedy’s career, from the muted distress of “Wishful Thinking” to jangly Clear Channel cutdown “The Late Greats.” Unofficial concert poet laureate of Chicago Thax Douglas will be sorely missed, but the inevitable “Heavy Metal Drummer” sing-along will not. Opening are hot hot hot indie experimental rockers Fiery Furnaces. Tickets $25-30, available at www.wangcenter.org. 7:30 p.m. Wang Center for the Performing Arts, 270 Tremont...
...National Book Critics Circle award-winning poet will read from her work as part of the Woodberry Poetry Room Series. Free. Photo ID required. 7p.m. Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library...
...There is a remarkably broad interest in Shakespeare, a hunger that appears insatiable,” Greenblatt says. “This book is an attempt to address that hunger by connecting the life and works of the great poet...