Notebook October 1982
The Beat convention
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A review of “On the Road Conference” about the Beat Generation.
A review of “On the Road Conference” about the Beat Generation.
On the editor of Scrutiny.
On the tradition and inspiration of Barbara Pym.
On the historical perspective of Calder’s notion of “drawing in space.”
An inaugural statement from the founding editors of The New Criterion.
On the state of American literary culture.
Reflections on Old Berlin, translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.
On postmodernism and the institutionalization of the avant-garde.