Born into a world of radios and Model T’s, he envisioned a fantastic future. And you can’t say he didn’t warn us.
Read MoreAfter reading with Ginsberg, teaching Zen to Kerouac, Gary Snyder followed his own path to become “the poet laureate of deep ecology.”
Read MoreOur National Pastime thrived on legend until Jim Bouton toppled the pedestals. Was that Mickey Mantle pinch hitting with a hangover?
Read MoreDartmouth grads expected the usual boring commencement speaker. But Joseph Brodsky spoke about boredom itself, aka “your window on time.”
Read MoreLike Thought Woman of Laguna lore, Leslie Marmon Silko dreams whole worlds of reality and myth.
Read MoreHe was a drunk squandering his talent. She was a poet who believed in him. Their love saved the “modern master” of the short story.
Read MoreA refrigerator note. A spark of genius. A classic poem and the senders it inspired.
Read MoreWhen The True Believer made his name, Eric Hoffer was a San Francisco longshoreman. Decades later, the zealots he labeled “true believers,” are still “everywhere on the march.”
Read MoreJune 6, 1944 — Sgt. Salinger, with drafts of The Catcher in the Rye in his pack, lands at Normandy.
Read More"The future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as the grave." -- Rebecca Solnit
Read MoreThe study said… The study said… Then Carol Gilligan realized. The study had only studied boys. Might girls speak “In a Different Voice”?
Read MoreLong before Martin Luther King, W.E.B. DuBois had a dream.
Read MoreOn Desolation Peak, Jack Kerouac expected to find God. Instead he found himself, and his best book, The Dharma Bums.
Read MoreA century ago, in the bleakest of years, other poets despaired. But one lit her candle -- at both ends.
Read MoreHow Langston Hughes touched bottom during the Depression and wrote an American anthem.
Read MoreIn these "times that try men's souls," Thomas Paine offers a remedy -- believe in people, not institutions.
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