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The tennis court oath : a book of poems / by John Ashbery.
Published 1962Full text (Emerson users only)
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More matter : essays and criticism / John Updike.
Published 2000Table of Contents: “…Smiling Bob -- This side of coherence -- The man within -- Shirley Temple Regina -- An undeciphered residue -- At the hairy edge of the possible -- Things, things -- Box me, daddy, eight to the bar code -- The flamingo-pink decade -- The liberation of the legs -- She's got personality -- Among canines -- Fine points -- Oh, it was sad -- 2000, here we come -- The old movie houses -- Samson and Delilah and me -- Legendary Lana -- M.M. in brief -- The Vargas girl -- Genial, kinetic Gene Kelly -- The domestic camera -- A bookish boy -- An ecstatic state -- A woman's burden -- Descent of an image -- Introduction to The writer's desk, by Jill Kermentz -- Introduction to The first picture book: everyday things for babies, by Mary Steichen Calderone and Edward Steichen -- Facing death -- Nadar's swift tact -- Fast art -- The revealed and the concealed -- Fun furniture -- Acts of seeing -- Big, bright, and Bendayed -- A case of monumentality -- Verminous pedestrians and car-tormented streets -- Funny faces -- The Sistine Chapel ceiling -- The Frick -- Updike and I -- Me and my books -- The short story and I -- Introduction to Self-selected stories -- Foreword to Love factories -- Foreword to "Brother grasshopper" -- Note on "A sandstone farmhouse" -- Note on "Playing with dynamite" -- Foreword to "The women who got away" -- Note on "My father on the verge of disgrace" -- Karl Shapiro -- Three New Yorker stalwarts (William Shawn, William Maxwell, Brendan Gill) -- Note for an exhibit of New Yorker cartoons -- My cartooning-- Cartoon magic -- Christmas cards -- A childhood transgression -- Remembering Pearl Harbor -- Reflections on radio -- Remembering Reading, Pa. -- An hour of the day -- Home in New England -- Introduction to Concerts at Castle Hill -- Accepting the Bobst Award -- Foreword to John Updike: a bibliography -- Accepting the National Book Critics Circle Award -- Accepting the Howells Medal -- Introduction to the Easton Press edition of the Rabbit novels -- Henry Bech interviews Updike -- "Special message " for the Franklin Library edition of Memories of the Ford administration -- "Special message" for the Franklin Library edition of Brazil -- "Special message" for the Franklin Library edition of In the beauty of the lilies -- "Special message" for the Franklin Library edition of Toward the end of time -- Two belated "Talk of the town" stories ("TV in NYC," "Amazon.com") -- Foreword to the French translation of Facing nature -- Humor these days -- An answer to a usual question -- Books that changed my life -- Five remembered moments of reading bliss -- Remembering reading Don Quixote -- The ten greatest works of literature, 1001-2000 -- Accepting the Campion Medal -- Remarks on religion and contemporary literature -- Accepting the National Book Foundation Medal.…”
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Our savage art : poetry and the civil tongue / William Logan.
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Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter / Seth Lerer.
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Understanding Dave Eggers / Timothy W. Galow.
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Understanding Jonathan Lethem / Matthew Luter.
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Understanding Edward P. Jones / James W. Coleman.
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Understanding Roberto Bolaño / Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat.
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Edwidge Danticat : a reader's guide / edited by Martin Munro.
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A political companion to Marilynne Robinson / edited by Shannon L. Mariotti and Joseph H. Lane Jr.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Political Dissident : the Life and Work of Aleksandar Petrovic.
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