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Giving good gimmick

To sustain a literary magazine over decades it pays to have a gimmick.
Granta at 30
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  June 12, 2009
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Swedish schnapps

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's Martin Beck mysteries are back in a fourth American printing.
The Martin Beck mysteries
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  December 02, 2008
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Selected and otherwise

Simic is a poet not of big gloomy poems but of small glooms and fears that haunt our waking lives and disturb our sleep.
A sheaf of post-April poetry and poets
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  May 13, 2008
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News to me

Notwithstanding the occasional university-press finalist (this year: David Kirby), the National Book Award for poetry is generally open to only a few American poets.
Robert Hass’s National Book Award
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  December 11, 2007
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Rhyme schemes

In honor of poetry month, these books have been plucked from the torrent.
Some 'Poetry Month' bon-bons
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  April 10, 2007
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Howling in Boston

A city is small geography — even the City on the Hill, the Athens of America — to merit a poet laureate.
This old towne
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  April 04, 2007
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The pro

During dinner parties nowadays, everyone, writers included, talks about movies. Rarely does a “serious” novel dominate conversation, but crime novels sometimes have a moment.
Robert Crais’s winning formula
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  February 27, 2007
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Reading with Paul Auster

In his introduction to Paul Auster 's reading at the Brattle Theatre, poet and Phoenix contributor William Corbett compared Auster 's lastest novel, Travels in the Scriptorium , to an episode of the Twilight Zone .
Video: Paul Auster reads from Travels in the Scriptorium, January 30, 2007 at the Brattle Theatre
By BOSTON.TV  |  February 17, 2007
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Just the facts

Ooga-Booga is Frederick Seidel’s 12th book of poetry to appear since 1963. Frederick Seidel reads from Ooga-Booga (mp3)
Frederick Seidel’s odd charms
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  February 13, 2007

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