Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voracious appetite it has spawned in New York City editors for a Washington dateline. Its demise will mean the end of the newsroom as college dorm, with ordered-in food, endless talk of sex, and all-nighters. Next week we will be back to Medicare reform. No one will read us; no one will write. Brian Williams won't call...
...contribution to the exhibit. A brightly painted coffin filled with fresh flowers was the focal point of the room's center thanks to the sophomore's efforts. His bio added a bit of levity to the show as well. "Vanko Vankov was born in 1978 in Bulgaria," it read "He hopes to live forever; the coffin he made is for someone else...
...densely constructed for much of the audience to understand in a single viewing. DeLillo's brilliant use of words is wasted by the speed at which they are spoken. Repeated viewings, however, bring to light connective strands of the plot; the script is a sheer pleasure to read...
...woman who identified herself as Manley's fall semester writing instructor read aloud passages from papers he had written...
Really, really, I recommend that you read Mr. Zbigniew Herbert. He is a serious poet, full of beauty that does not insult our modern post-atrocity sensibilities. A Polish poet born in 1950 who was active in his country's anti-Communist movement, Herbert died in 1998, leaving behind an oeuvre that begins with spare poems about creation, antiquity and art. He then continues those themes through increasingly pointed and readable poetry while also developing a strong form of the prose poem that mixes fairy tales, images from everyday life and an aphoristic style. The recently published posthumous collection Elegy...