"Gore Vidal
has died: "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent,
too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate
a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time
people will solemnly vote against their own interests." At The New York Review of Books, Charles Simic reflects on Aurora. The Atlantic reports on one poet worrying about information overload in 1821. The Poetry Foundation has announced the long list for the Ruth Lilly Fellowships. Suicide Girls interviews Anne Carson. And Gore Vidal has died."
Source: The Boston Review
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