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Bianca Stone

Bianca Stone

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Robert Boyers

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Anne Carson

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Andrei Codrescu

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Jonathan Cohen

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Edwidge Danticat

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Michael Davidson

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Michael Dirda

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Jeffrey Eugenides

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William H. Gass

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William Gibson

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Amelia Gray

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John Guare

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Albert J. Guerard

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Irving Howe

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Shane Jones

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Sue Monk Kidd

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Mark Kurlansky

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Tony Kushner

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Alvin Lustig

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Ben Marcus

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Julio Marzán

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Harry Mathews

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Armistead Maupin

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Terrence McNally

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Christopher Middleton

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Rick Moody

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Adam Phillips

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Francine Prose

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Lou Reed

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James Reidel

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Kim Stanley Robinson

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Will Self

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John Patrick Shanley

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Roger Shattuck

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Patti Smith

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Susan Sontag

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Lynne Tillman

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Colm Tóibín

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John Updike

Hidde Van Ameyden van Duym

Swami  Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda

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William Vollmann

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John Waters

Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger

Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

James Wood

James Wood

Jim Woodring

Jim Woodring

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."

 

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