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  • 08.16.17
    The Process of Not Knowing
    John Berryman Centenary
    Sam Stephenson and Allan Gurganus In Conversation

    The Process of Not Knowing

    With more than 500 interviews and over twenty years of research, Sam Stephenson presents his newest masterpiece Gene Smith’s Sink—an extraordinary look into the life of W. Eugene Smith, a revolutionary photojournalist who both captured some of history’s most powerful images and chronicled...

    Sam Stephenson and Allan Gurganus In Conversation

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  • 02.12.15
    Sonnet 43
    John Berryman Centenary
    John Berryman

    Sonnet 43

    "John Berryman was an unconventional poet, but he must have surprised even himself when, in his thirties, he was suddenly compelled to write sonnets." So writes April Bernard in her introduction to the recent reissue of Berryman's Sonnets. But love has always...

    John Berryman

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  • 10.29.14
    Kind In Ways We Cannot Account For
    John Berryman Centenary
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    Kind In Ways We Cannot Account For

    In commemoration of the centenary of John Berryman's birth (October 25, 1914), FSG’s Work in Progress is celebrating this icon of twentieth-century American literature by having authors write about what they admire about him and his work. This is an unpublished letter, dated...

    James Wright

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  • 10.23.14
    A Long Wonder
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    A Long Wonder

    In commemoration of the centenary of John Berryman's birth (October 25, 1914), FSG’s Work in Progress is celebrating this icon of twentieth-century American literature by having authors write about what they admire about him and his work.

    Jenny Offill John Berryman Centenary

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  • 10.23.14
    Completely Possessed
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    Completely Possessed

    In commemoration of the centenary of John Berryman's birth (October 25, 1914), FSG’s Work in Progress is celebrating this icon of twentieth-century American literature by having authors write about what they admire about him and his work.

    Catherine Lacey John Berryman Centenary

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  • 10.23.14
    More of Seasons than of Hierarchies
    John Berryman Centenary
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    More of Seasons than of Hierarchies

    In commemoration of the centenary of John Berryman's birth (October 25, 1914), FSG’s Work in Progress is celebrating this icon of twentieth-century American literature by having authors write about what they admire about him and his work. The incandescent temperament of Berryman's poetry...

    Rowan Ricardo Phillips John Berryman Centenary

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  • 10.22.14
    Berryman
    John Berryman Centenary
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    Berryman

    In commemoration of the centenary of John Berryman's birth (October 25, 1914), FSG’s Work in Progress is celebrating this icon of twentieth-century American literature by having authors write about what they admire about him and his work. “Berryman,” by W.S. Merwin, is originally...

    W. S. Merwin John Berryman Centenary

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  • 10.22.14
    Berryman’s Haunted I
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    Berryman’s Haunted I

    In commemoration of the centenary of John Berryman's birth (October 25, 1914), FSG’s Work in Progress is celebrating this icon of twentieth-century American literature by having authors write about what they admire about him and his work. I often think of my favorite...

    Dorothea Lasky John Berryman Centenary

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  • 10.21.14
    A Dream Recounted
    John Berryman Centenary
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    A Dream Recounted

    In commemoration of the centenary of John Berryman's birth (October 25, 1914), FSG’s Work in Progress is celebrating this icon of twentieth-century American literature by having authors write about what they admire about him and his work. “A dream recounted is a reader...

    Rick Moody John Berryman Centenary

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  • 10.17.14
    Age, and the deaths, and his ghosts: On the lives of John Berryman
    John Berryman Centenary
    Poets in Their Youth

    Age, and the deaths, and his ghosts: On the lives of John Berryman

    In 1967, the poet John Berryman—already a Pulitzer Prize winner for his 77 Dream Songs—was interviewed by the English critic A. Alvarez. The interview, which ran over the course of three days, was filmed for the BBC at a pub, Ryan’s Beggars Bush, in Ballsbridge, Dublin, and it is from this footage that the clips of Berryman reading his Dream Songs—#14 and #29—which now circulate on YouTube are drawn.

    Miranda Popkey

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  • 04.28.14
    On “Tampa Stomp”
    John Berryman Centenary
    The Heart is Strange

    On “Tampa Stomp”

    This October marks John Berryman’s centenary, and to honor the hundredth anniversary of this inventive, transformative poet’s birth, we’re republishing a number of his works. In addition to The Heart is Strange, a new volume of selected poems edited by Daniel Swift, we’re also reissuing Berryman's Sonnets, 77 Dream Songs, and the complete Dream Songs. Here, John Darnielle—Mountain Goats frontman, avowed Berryman fanatic, and author of the novel Wolf in White Van, also coming from FSG this fall—takes us beyond the Dream Songs and into the pleasures of "Tampa Stomp" (which is included in The Heart is Strange). - Editors

    John Darnielle John Berryman Centenary

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