• Seriously

    by  • 27 January 2012 • 0 Comments

    For Lionel Trilling, his widow points out, seriousness, not happiness, was the goal worthy of an intellectual life. This week I’m reading from David Lehman’s The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, from which the above is excerpted.

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    3 Great Things: Grover, Believing, Best Of

    by  • 11 January 2012 • 0 Comments

    Welcome to my first random act of occasional curating, where I use my blog to share those things that risk never being found again, by me (if I simply bookmark them). These are some of the links I find the time for, especially when work risks turning upside-down my usual smile, gleefully

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    2012 Promises

    by  • 2 January 2012 • 0 Comments

    Hello and happy new year to all. May 2012 be one of health, happiness, and the making of your dreams come true. Instead of affirming a resolution, a word that brings to mind lawyers, politicians, and all that is devoid of charm and imagination, I have decided to make a promise, to myself.

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    Synopsis for Make-Believe: A Novel

    by  • 2 January 2012 • 1 Comment

    Here’s a synopsis of my novel-in-progress, the third I’ve written and the first for publication, expected this summer. Although I’m halfway through the second draft, there is a chance I’ll revise this synopsis, for the millionth time. Make-Believe : A Novel by A.J.Duric

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    Dear Writer,

    by  • 28 December 2011 • 0 Comments

    A “Dear Writer,” note arrived all the way from Iowa City three days before Christmas. My first real rejection from a literary journal. I think I’m going to frame it, because notes can be framed, and feelings like the brief, hot flash of rejection thankfully can’t.

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