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In twenty-one interviews spanning nearly half a century, Conversations with Ted Kooser chronicles the Nebraska writer’s ......more
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In this wide-ranging, stylish and iconoclastic book, the acclaimed Belfast filmmaker and BBC author Mark Cousins reflect......more
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Lousi Hagen, as a young German Jew in 1934, aged only 17, was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, betrayed for an off-han......more
James Barrie has been marked in recent years as manipulative, perverted and without the ability to love. Having authored......more
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Known internationally for his Japanese-style poetry, Lenard D. Moore (b. 1958) has published eight poetry collections ov......more
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The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1......more
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