November 2008

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Robert Frost on the Pound-Abercrombie duel that never was

Peter Howarth’s November 6 LRB review of Robert Frost’s recently published Notebooks mentions the first draft of his unpublished play about the duel to which Ezra Pound challenged the poet Lascelles Abercrombie in 1913, “after Abercrombie had proposed that modern poetry could learn from Wordsworth’s interest in contemporary speech” — a suggestion that could have [...]

Kitschy Restaurant Chain Decor in the Age of eBay

I don’t visit restaurants like Applebee’s or T.G.I. Friday’s very often so when I do I tend to be more fascinated (and demoralized) than I probably should be.  The signature kitschy decor, which attempts to imitate a more natural accumulation of mementos, seems just the kind of dreary, instant local culture effect that a global [...]

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