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Giving Good Gimmick: Granta at 30new
To sustain a good literary magazine over decades it pays to have a gimmick. Thirty-year-old Granta's secret to success: themes, like this issue's "New Fiction Special."
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
06-30-2009 |
Fiction
Fast and Furious: Ted Berrigan's Collected Poemsnew
Twenty-two years after Ted Berrigan’s sudden death at 48, his Collected Poems, a 760-page brick of a book, is here. It will solidify and expand his legend.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
10-17-2005 |
Poetry
Frank King's Gasoline Alley Comes to Hardcovernew
In Frank King’s Walt and Skeezix, editors Jeet Heer, Chris Oliveros, and Chris Ware have produced a handsomely designed, sweet-souled book, along with a forthcoming multi-volume set of his Gasoline Alley comic strips.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
08-22-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Frank O. King, Walt and Skeezix
Passionate Aristocrat: Robert Lowell's Unvarnished Shop Talknew
This is unrevised Lowell, spiky, provocative, with signature strings of adjectives that must have delighted his correspondents.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
07-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Memoir Covers the Author's Struggle to Believe and Morenew
David Plante descends from Ernest Hemingway and writes a high American plain style with a personality all its own. In his memoir American Ghosts, he quotes a passage from Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and his prose stands up to it.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
03-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: American Ghosts, David Plante
Troubled Master: Willem de Kooning's art and lifenew
De Kooning achieved fame late in a turbulent life dedicated to women, drink, and work, work, work.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
11-22-2004 |
Nonfiction
