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The Institutionist

(That’s what I kept thinking Nicholson Baker’s new novel was called. The Institutionist. Did you mean: The Institutionalist?!?!??!) (Still braindead.) Anyway: Geoff Dyer on Nicholson Baker‘s The Anthologist (in the Abu Dhabi National): It’s a bonkers idea, but as we all know, any given sentence can be galvanised by a single surprising word (which is [...]

“The Glee of Contempt”

Must poetry that goes to extremes authenticate itself by going completely bonkers? —Dan Chiasson on Frederick Seidel, NYRB, 7/16/09

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