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The papers of award-winning author and Evanston native Charles Johnson have been acquired by Washington University in St. Louis, the school recently announced.
The article was provoked by the recent controversy surrounding the decision by publisher W.W. Norton, in response to unsubstantiated allegations of sexual misconduct, to remove Blake Bailey’s biography of novelist Philip Roth from print, essentially to “pulp” the book.
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The Hollins Critic is a journal of literary criticism published five times a year through Hollins University in Roanoke. Founded in 1964 by Louis Rubin Jr., the journal was intended to promote new writers of fiction and poetry through an experimental form the editors described as “literary journalism.” When the journal debuted, they announced their plan to deliver in each issue a critical essay on “a new book by an important younger writer [that] will be considered at some length, not only in its own right but in its relationship to the writer’s other publications.” The
Critic later chose to publish issues featuring established writers who had added new noteworthy volumes to their works. Not all of the journal’s subjects have been American writers.
The endless possibilities of poetry
With a storied literary past, Washington University continues to provide time, place and space to stretch as a poet.
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On any given day, the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis campus offers an opportunity to revel in its rich poetry tradition, if you know where to look.
Places such as east of Olin Library, where an allée of ginkgo trees stands and that once inspired Poet Laureate Howard Nemerov to write “The Consent.”
Or in University Libraries’ Julian Edison Department of Special Collections, where you can find a blue book that displays the scribbles of a young T.S. Eliot.