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How Should One Read a Book?

Read it as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
Odilon Redon, Beatrice, 1897. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam..
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The Burning Heart

Louise Glück
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Hitler’s National Socialism

Leon Trotsky

In those years, people will say, we lost track / of the meaning of we, of you

Adrienne Rich In Those Years

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Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, “[Multiple Exposures of the Moon],” 1846-52. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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My Philosophy of Life

John Ashbery
Rodrigo Moynihan, Light Bulbs, 1982, oil on canvas. Collection of Robert Becker. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
An open mouth; Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
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September Twilight

Louise Glück
Young James Merrill with his pet terrier at "The Orchard" in 1930.
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Cosmo

James Merrill

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Young James Merrill with his pet terrier at "The Orchard" in 1930.
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Cosmo

James Merrill
April 1, 1994
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In Those Years

Adrienne Rich
April 1, 1992
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Short Talks

Anne Carson
July 1, 1991
Rodrigo Moynihan, Light Bulbs, 1982, oil on canvas. Collection of Robert Becker. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
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My Philosophy of Life

John Ashbery
September 1, 1943
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[Somehow myself survived the night]

Emily Dickinson
September 1, 1935
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Hitler’s National Socialism

Leon Trotsky
December 1, 1933