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What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

My Truck Desk

What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

The Eleventh Word (2020)

What goes wrong when we write ghazals in English

Dickinson's Dresses on the Moon

Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet?

My Cat Mii

Geometric line-art of Wacław Szpakowski (2017)

Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe (2018)

Extreme, Extreme! The literature of laughing gas. (2014)

Against Rereading

The Private Life: On James Baldwin

The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram

Televised Music Is a Pointless Rigmarole (1968)

At the Webster Apartments

Scrabble, Anonymous

A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)

The Institute for Illegal Images

The Life and Times of "The Paris Metro"

Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group

Sometimes a Little Bullshit Is Fine: A Conversation with Charles Simic

The Sphere

Postcards from Elizabeth Bishop

Kurt Vonnegut's House Is Not Haunted

At Sea: On the defunct language of nautical flags (2016)

And Alexander Wept (2020)

The Language of Lava Lamps

Hello, World Part One: Eliza (2022)

J. G. Ballard’s brilliant, “not good” writing

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