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Chessboard. And in empire of self, Middlebury College professor of english jay parini recalls the life of gore vidal. Look for titles in in the bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the future on cspan2. Host glenn beck, in your newest book why do you open with Thomas Jefferson and the library of congress . Guest because jefferson changed hi life. He wrote my life. He wrote a letter to his nephew, peter carr. Peter was 15, 14, somewhere in that a area. His mother had died, his father...

Together the life and we have the clues from of course her brother william, her brother henry and from her letters and from her diaries trying to work out that he died in her 40s and did not produce the work that her brothers produced but had the abiding wish that lacked a bit of prose style than either of them in a better mind a sharper mind than either of them. The only girl in the family of five sitting at the dinner table listening to them until a certain age when her mother made clear to he...

Reading the late Tyrone Williams’s last book, befittingly released by his alma mater, is to be caught up in a bittersweet moment which pulses both with loss and pleasure at rediscovering this poet’s immense power to summon the sounds of his culture. We do well to stow away umbrellas, rain boots, thunder coats and instead let the lyric make direct contact at the throat, ribcage and imprint its music as it rises, spills and slides between word and thing. It pours! It writes! “splash...

Nearly 100 years ago, an impending solar eclipse prompted whimsical suggestions for how to spend the few minutes of darkness from a prominent American humorist. Millions are on the move to get to the path of totality for Monday’s eclipse or planning to watch close to home but what will they do when the moment comes?

Nearly 100 years ago, an impending solar eclipse prompted whimsical suggestions for how to spend the few minutes of darkness from a prominent American humorist. Millions are on the move to get to the path of totality for Monday’s eclipse or planning to watch close to home but what will they do when the moment comes?

Author and Middlebury College professor Jay Parini, 75, is steeped in the life and work of Robert Frost. Parini spent a quarter century crafting Robert...

Inside the ethically thorny world of posthumous publishing.

Inside the ethically thorny world of posthumous publishing

Celebrate Robert Frost's Birthday at Town Hall Theater with Jay Parini’s “Robert Frost – Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart” presented by The Vermont Book Shop.

WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Jay Parini and his poem "Pennsylvania Journal."