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When will the swan begin to sing?
We’re so weary of everything
And the swan on the river goes glidin' by
The swan on the river goes glidin' by
—Bob Dylan, “The Ballad of the Gliding Swan”
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Calvert Morgan
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Calvert Morgan
@CalMorgan
Worshipful Company of Book Folk 📚 Senior Literary Agent, Enliven Endeavors ✨ “Please read.”
New York Katılım Şubat 2009
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Mayor @ZohranKMamdani: It is time we stop asking our libraries to justify their existence. Earlier this week, we released our executive budget. Our budget baselines $31.7M in new, permanent funding across all 3 of New York's public library systems.
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@HamiltonCain @davewingrave I agree, Audition’s more fully realized and successful at developing its own ideas.
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@CalMorgan @davewingrave I like the set-up but Kitamura does this kind of fiction better. See: Audition or (better) Intimacies. John of John is the only great English language novel in 2026 so far, but there’s a bonanza ahead, i.e. Whitehead, Diaz, James, St. John Mandel, Cusk. The new Yoon is terrific.
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A lot of you have what I'd call a "my kid could do that" view of "Ben Lerner"
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@HamiltonCain @davewingrave But that’s so blunt! It may be a little minor and imperfect, but surely it has its moving qualities?
Then again I am not a critic, I’m an advocate, and I tend to be defensive of writers, even those I have nothing to do with. (Though in this case I have at least read the book.)
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Curious:
Do people generally believe that at some future date all social media posts will be reviewed for copyright violation, and the only people to go unscathed will be those who add a few words at the bottom of their post saying “I do not own this material”?
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If the Democratic Party was anything close to Zohran, we would be in for generational change in this country.
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani to permanently fund NYC libraries and parks. Libraries will no longer have to plead for funding each year.
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@dlondonwortel Have you got any of the northeast Bronx looking into southern Westchester?
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Walker’s 3rd Philadelphia, 1811, if you will
Merriam-Webster@MerriamWebster
SERIOUS QUESTION Do you have an old dictionary, and/or do you still use it? Pics or it didn’t happen.
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@olgatuleninova As I’ve mentioned before, Edward Hopper did create a painting called “The Dory,” but it was a painting of a . . . dory.
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Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967 American)
'The Dory' 1929.
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Ben Lerner, TRANSCRIPTION (2026)
Matthew Sitman@MatthewSitman
I've been corresponding w/ someone whose exact age is unknown, but who must be well into his 80s. For years, he's generously helped me w/ my Gay Literary Research. Any advice on how to ask him to record an interview with me without making it seem like I think he's about to die?
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We’re not in “the age of AI”
We’re in an age of fools and grifters
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Calvert Morgan retweetledi
If you haven't heard Justin Pearson's speech to the TN State House today you need to listen.
"Today, you will take the only Black-majority district from us. But I want you to know: No matter what you do, no matter how much you try to break us & make us bend & quit, we will still be here."
Good people who understand the Constitution and care are sick of our racist president and his hateful minions.
We stand with Justin Pearson today and every single day.
#EqualityForAll
#DemsUnited
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@RoganBarbara I haven’t read it! That’s part of my point. Neither have those tarring it as “gimmicky,” which seems anti-art.
And a final point before I shut up: the only thing any of us learns by reading a book is what *our* experience of it is. It may not be for everyone, and that’s fine!
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@CalMorgan It may seem gimmicky. The question is whether the form suits the story and contributes in some essential way, and the only way to know that is to read it. I gather you liked it a lot?
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Daniel Kraus won the fiction Pulitzer for ‘Angel Down,’ a World War I narrative told in a single sentence. I can't knock what I haven't yet read, but really: Why one sentence? Punctuation's free. I'm guessing the author rode a unicycle as a kid. #BookLovers
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@RoganBarbara Barbara, I respect where you’re coming from—but I see so much pre-emptive anger directed at this book simply because it happens to involve a formal experiment. I’d like to understand better where it comes from. Do we want writers to be *less* adventurous? Is that good for anyone?
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@CalMorgan Been a writer all my working life and a literary agent for much of it, so I don't really need to be told to trust artists. Of course real ones push the boundaries. I hope this writer isn't a one-sentence pony, but I'll read and judge for myself.
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@RoganBarbara I don’t have to admit that! It’s just a slightly unusual formal move. Artists are supposed to challenge the power of their tools. That’s like saying Monet’s paintings look blurry.
Don’t distrust artists! They’re not trying to put one over on you.
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@CalMorgan I do. I plan to read the book. And I'm very fond of semicolons. From the outside, though, you have to admit it looks like an affectation.
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As someone who started working there at the age of 20, in an office at around the position of Bedroom 4, I effectively did just that
lisa@luoser
Imagine growing up in the Flatiron Building
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Shoutout to the utterly browsable, pioneering Hollywood hidden-history FLESH AND FANTASY, where I first saw these and many other such shots.
Noirchick In Old Hollywood@Noirchick1
Long before AI or Photoshop, retouching of Hollywood portraits was done by hand... This example of a 1931 Hurrell photo of Joan Crawford is the work of James Sharp, who took 13 hours to physically smooth the negative to create the airbrushed look.
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