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Literary Regrets

On July 8, 2010 By Bennett Lovett-Graff

Lisa Dickler Awano is a scholar of Alice Munro and an alumna of the University of Chicago, which I attended as well. She is also a subscriber to New Haven Review and a forthcoming contributor.

When we saw each other at the most recent New Haven Review gala, we talked briefly, as we [...]

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Lit Up

On April 14, 2010 By Bennett Lovett-Graff

Earlier, I posted on the fruitlessness of teaching students how to write literary criticism. The argument was part tongue in cheek, part all business. In brief, I'm ambivalent about the value of this activity. This ambivalence lies in the fact that not teaching students how to write literary criticism is not the same as [...]

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Literary Curmudgeonism

On March 7, 2010 By Bennett Lovett-Graff

OK, call me lazy, but I'm reposting something I had written once upon a time for my personal blog and still find to be the case, not that currency always justifies repetition.  But, in this instance, I'm making an exception.

Once, while I sat schmoozing in the home of  New Haven Review editor Mark Oppenheimer, [...]

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The Good Will of Books

On July 7, 2009 By Bennett Lovett-Graff

A few weeks ago, I had lunch with John Donatich, director of the Yale University Press at Yale’s Graduate Club on Elm Street, where we swapped stories from our respective careers in publishing. (I did most of the talking, to be honest.) In the course of conversation, we discussed the state of academic publishing. I had [...]

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