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Sigrid Nunez’s Art of Noticing
  + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Wyatt Mason | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Growing up on Staten Island, Nunez was an outsider to the literary world. Her father immigrated to the United States illegally at some point — facts on his life are scant, according to Nunez — working in a hospital kitchen and Chinese restaurants. Home difficulties aside, Nunez was an avid reader and a strong student, which earned her the scholarship to Barnard. Auden and Susan Sontag (who later hired Nunez as a typist, a period memorialized in Nunez’s one memoir, “Sempre Susan”). Silvers was notorious for yelling at his staff or barely noticing them, for expecting them to stay until all hours, as he would.
Persons: Nunez, Nunez —, , Barnard, Virginia Woolf, Nunez’s, , Hardwick, — Hardwick, Robert Silvers, Barbara, Jason Epstein —, Mary McCarthy, Truman Capote, Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, W.H, Auden, Susan Sontag, Susan ”, — Martin Scorsese, ” Nunez, Silvers, Barbara Epstein Organizations: Army, Putnam, The New York, New York City, New York Locations: Staten, United States, Lowell, New York
The Kidnapped Child Who Became a Poet
  + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Wyatt Mason | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
McCrae dropped out of high school and got an equivalency diploma. By 19, he was on his own, married, father of a daughter, but without a clear path forward, only a clear ambition to write poetry. I felt he had been beaten down by some great force — some injustice beyond the injustice of being Black in America. But these are just themes; every poet has them, and they say nothing about what might make verse notable, durable. It is McCrae’s own deep knowledge, and use, of the history of poetic form that has marked his work and made it, identifiably, his own.
Persons: McCrae, McCrae didn’t, Jorie Graham, , ” Graham, , , identifiably Organizations: Linfield, Iowa, , Harvard Law School Locations: America
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