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...first effort at writing verse, but it was the first time I tried to write a long, narrative, epic poem. I somehow decided that doing a book of rhyming couplets would sort of drone on after a while, so I decided to interrupt it with what we're calling "embedded poems." Some of those - maybe about half - are poems that appeared in The Nation. The whole narrative poem is published for the first time in the book...
...buying a two-foot pile of newspapers from various parts of the country. Obviously reporters are always looking for stories with some tension and some narrative movement. I often found myself in places where one part of society was rubbing up against another. And then sometimes I'd sort of feel worn down by controversies and murders, and I'd look for a light story about a crawfish festival, or something like that. I don't think [New Yorker editor William] Shawn ever said, "No, that's not right...
...classmate of mine who was the person we thought would be President of the United States. He committed suicide. That led to a book about my father, since my father crept into the first book. Sometimes the memoir is painful to write, but then, I haven't written the sort of memoir that seems to be the style in the U.S. now, which I often characterize as an "atrocity arms-race." With the one about my father, I kept wondering why I was doing this. My father, for most of his working life, was a grocer in Kansas City...
...they get too big and unmanageable. Yet with the price of stocks plummeting and an onslaught of investors asking for their money back, many funds aren't nearly the size they once were - so they're taking on fresh investors. A number of portfolio managers, especially the value-conscious sort, are also seeing cheap stocks all over the place and want extra money to buy in. One of the reasons Longleaf Partners reopened earlier this year was that its managers had identified some $1.5 billion worth of securities they wanted to buy. (Read a brief history...
...Indulging in the same sort of speculation as the terrorism experts, I would say it's likely the attackers picked up their combat experience in Afghanistan. They could have come out of Iraq as well, but Mumbai seems a little far afield for Iraqis. Again, at this point none of this is certain. We may find out the killers were Hindu extremists, or Tamil separatists...