Tag Archives: Ex-Pats

Chuck

Joseph Brodsky wasn’t thinking about Chuck Palahniuk when he talked about an exiled writer’s genre being that of tragicomedy, and he sure didn’t have in mind the same thing I do when I think of that quote in relation to … Continue reading

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The Next Malcolm Cowley

P. read me this paragraph from Malcolm Cowley’s Exile’s Return, and a Lost Generation found me:  Somewhere the turn of a dirt road or the unexpected crest of a hill reveals your own childhood, the fields where you once played…, … Continue reading

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