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When George Plimpton Met the Best Bartender in Brooklyn

When George Plimpton Met the Best Bartender in Brooklyn

Two New York Legends Collide

By Tim Sultan | February 26, 2016

Fear and Loathing in NYC: Hunter S. Thompson Goes to Town

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On the Anniversary of His Death, a Look at his life and crimes in the Big Apple

By Arvind Dilawar | February 19, 2016

The Women of Oscar Wilde

The Women of Oscar Wilde

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The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

Sixty Years Ago, at the Launch Party for a Literary Journal (Of Course)

By Belinda McKeon | February 17, 2016

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Aleksandar Tišma: “All my novels are autobiographical.”

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Volker Weidermann, translated by Carol Janeway

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A Very Odd Night in a Possibly Fake North Korean Village

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