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...This week the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia will unveil a collection of letters written by the Swedish sylph that have sat unread since 1960 and may portray a side of the actress never seen in her movies. The letters were given to the museum by their recipient--poet, playwright and socialite MERCEDES DE ACOSTA, who is perhaps best known for her purported affairs with Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan. The correspondence is believed to suggest that Garbo also ranked among her conquests. De Acosta stipulated that the letters should remain sealed until 10 years after the death...
Bellow's novels have prompted this sort of what's-the-real-story queries before, most notably his Pulitzer prizewinning Humboldt's Gift (1975). In that book, the brilliant but mentally deteriorating poet Von Humboldt Fleisher was widely regarded as a fictional copy of Delmore Schwartz, a friend and onetime mentor to the young Bellow. The author never denied an imaginative connection between Humboldt and Schwartz, but neither did he think it a topic much worth discussing. And he was right. For a quarter-century, untold thousands of people who never heard of Delmore Schwartz have read Humboldt's Gift...
...Blues for the New Year, 1997," he notes, with tongue-in-cheek stoicism, "I'm sixty-seven/and have high blood pressure,/and probably shouldn't/be doing speed at all." When a male acquaintance appears at his door, disheveled and asking for a night's rest, the inquiring poet notes: "You don't feel anecdotal,/Give me a weary grin, And eat three plates of Total." Seeing a renowned bar brawler in his decline, Gunn calls him "a shabby old tabby." That description does not fit the poet...
...Dadaist Max 2. William McKinley's First Lady 3. Massachusetts is applying strict consumer regulations to these 4. Hero's antithesis 5. One with an "Esq." tag 6. Business-card abbr. 7. Poet's preposition 8. '70s lottery org. 9. Bring to ruin 10. Clinton called Giuliani "a tool of the right-wing __ machine" 11. Make public 12. Help a checker 15. Is afflicted with 17. Islamic title 19. Apt. feature, in classifieds 20. Billionaire Broad, who has donated $1 million to the Democratic National Convention committee 21. Either Griffey 23. Luau offering 25. Sound...
...Ukraine, which he assembled, with loving, exhausting labor, between 1982 and 1993. He became a translator and champion of Ukrainian writing. He enlisted me sometimes in college to help him polish English versions of such beloved writers as Vasyl Stefanyk. He had taught me about the great Ukrainian national poet, Taras Shevchenko. (He also taught me some overly colorful Ukrainian phrases that I was stupid enough to repeat in mixed Ukrainian company, to his embarrassment and mine...