Word: pressing
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...press release, Rudenstine said that Porter was an ideal choice for the post...
...book called Wicked by Gregory Maguire, I get word that ABC is running the miniseries of the novel in the spring (Demi Moore might play the Wicked Witch of the West in this revisionist Wizard of Oz). Shouldn't I get points for picking hot topics?... A WB press agent gushed, "Tori Spelling is the next Lucille Ball." Where's the Kaopectate?... Blah blah UC presidential candidates blah blah. I'm tired of presidential elections. They're sooooo last month... I keep thinking about the budding romance of Ben Affleck and Shoshanna Lowenstein and my stomach starts to hurt. After...
That's why Ashbery's Harvard reading was more than just a celebration of the starving artist who made it big. He was here promoting the re-release of One Hundred Multiple Choice Questions-a prescient burlesque, it seems, of "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire"-and the small press that first published it 30 years ago, Adventures in Poetry. Edited by Larry Fagin, a iconic figure in New York underground, Adventures in Poetry was one of several dozen shoestring publishing ventures that burst onto the scene during the "Mimeo-revolution" of the 1960s. The revival of the press represents...
...Hitler, but I was a good Hitler," Fagin says with a characteristic smile at the Brookline headquarters of the reincarnated press, an hour from Harvard. "I came back to New York in 1967 to live permanently, and right away was involved in a community of writers. My way of being involved was to cleave them to me and control them all by starting a little magazine. It became a kind of benign power, and at the same time a friendly way to involve myself. That was my original motivation...
...press stopped publishing in 1976, due in part to a lack of "interesting manuscripts." North, gentle and erudite, partly blames the "fake professionalization of poetry and by the MFA phenomenon" for the shoddy state of contemporary verse. Indeed, Masters programs at prestigious schools (of which Iowa is the most famous) seem increasingly out of touch with the imaginative energy so consistent of underground communities. But today's problems are also economic. When publishing was cheaper, poets could devote their time to the serious business of writing verse-and keep their sense of humor about it. "Now," Fagin laments, "poets...