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Document: Tim O’Brien’s Archive
The Professional, edited by Tim O'Brien, October 11, 1969. Reproduced by permission of Tim O'Brien, courtesy the Harry Ransom Center. Tim O’Brien was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Vietnam on...
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Michael Herr, 1940–2016
Photograph by Jane Bown. No one could write like Michael Herr. We all tried: scribes and grunts, killers and chroniclers, fool novelists and crackpot journos. Herr’s work doesn’t so much loom over...
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Unconventional, Part 3: Norman Mailer and the Pigs
In anticipation of the Republican and Democratic national conventions later this summer, Nathan Gelgud, a correspondent for the Daily, will be posting a regular weekly comic about the writers,...
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Father Daniel Berrigan: Poet, Priest, Prophet
Nathan Gelgud has illustrated for The Paris Review, Nike, Random House, NYRB Classics, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ford Foundation, and The Believer. He is one of the Daily’s correspondents.
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Diane di Prima Digs in San Francisco
Nathan Gelgud has illustrated for The Paris Review, Nike, Random House, NYRB Classics, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ford Foundation, and The Believer. He is one of the Daily’s correspondents.
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Staff Picks: Constipation, Hubris, Sincerity
Arista Alanis, “ … on down the road” (detail), oil on canvas, 30″ x 24″. From the cover of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. I first encountered Arthur Schnitzler’s work as an undergraduate, when I...
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Finding Home After the Vietnam War
“The San Luis Valley resembled in magnitude nothing so much as the ocean.” “I hated being over there,” Ron Sitts said. He looked at his hands. Freckles and blond hair circled his knuckles. On his...
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Martin Luther King’s Radical Anticapitalism
AP Photo/Horace Cort In a posthumously published essay, Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed out that the “black revolution” had gone beyond the “rights of Negroes.” The struggle, he said, is “forcing...
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Who Are You, Jack Whitten?
Born in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1939, Jack Whitten is celebrated for his innovative processes of applying paint to the surface of his canvases and transfiguring their material terrains. Although Whitten...
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Staff Picks: Death, Dávila, and Darkness
Amparo Dávila. Last Friday, when temperatures dropped into the bone-chilling teens, a crowd of about thirty people dipped out of the cold into Aeon Bookstore on East Broadway and Essex, where they...
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