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The poet wandered for himself and for his various day jobs with New York City newspapers. Some of his haunts are still standing; most have been swept away with time.
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‘Specimen Days’ Is Both an Ode to Walt Whitman and Its Own Portrait of America
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Michael Cunningham’s 2005 novel jumps between centuries and genres as it explores the yearning for transcendence and the importance of noticing.
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We’re Reading Michael Cunningham’s ‘Specimen Days’ With the Author
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Join us Dec. 8 for a virtual conversation on this novel about love, yearning, transcendence and America.
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Eight Works to Take in After or Alongside Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’
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The author consumed countless archival articles, essays, poems and even Sunday school programs to get a feel for the Harlem Renaissance. Here is some reading to help you do the same.
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How Toni Morrison Wrote Her Most Challenging Novel
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‘Jazz’ is a roaming, musical book, writes the poet Morgan Parker. It reads differently than the author’s others and is said to have been her favorite.
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The Real Lives of Early 20th-Century Celebrities, as Depicted in ‘Ragtime’
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In the novel, E.L. Doctorow makes characters out of J. Pierpont Morgan, Emma Goldman, Booker T. Washington and others, sometimes hewing to the historical record and sometimes going his own way.
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With ‘Ragtime,’ E.L. Doctorow Blends Fact and Fantasy to Deliver a Pointed Critique
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In the 1975 novel, as Jonathan Dee writes, the gaps between disparate American lives are closed and the veils that keep some invisible to others are dropped.
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A Conversation on ‘Desperate Characters’
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The writer Sigrid Nunez speaks about Paula Fox’s 1970 novel.
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A London Restaurant Inspired by Ghana’s Chop Bars
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Plus: a clothing store with a Greek cafe, furniture fashioned from branches and more recommendations from T Magazine.