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April 11, 2025When I began offering a series of literature courses for paid subscribers to my Substack last year, I chose, more out of whim than careful calculation, to name the initiative The...
April 8, 2025The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. —Walt Whitman (1855) Perhaps what this country needs is a great poem. —Herbert Hoover (1932) Why did...
March 13, 2025Initially, you self-published Major Arcana in a serialized way on your Substack. Tell me about that decision and experience. It didn't start out high-mindedly; I was...
January 29, 2025The time has come for Bruce Wagner.
January 22, 2025Is literature the same as writing? The historian would say “yes.” Out of the song cycles and ritual performances of an oral culture, the discriminated...
