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Frederic Tuten is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He has written five novels – The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (1971), Tallien: A Brief Romance (1988), Tintin in the New World: A Romance (1993), Van Gogh's Bad Café (1997) and The Green Hour (2002) – as well as one book of inter-related short stories, Self-Portraits: Fictions (2010), and essays, many of the latter being about contemporary art.

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Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

Cooked, Maybe, Poe, Poetry Is, Said, Way

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

Affair, Love, Nothing, Years, Years Ago

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

Beauty, Contemporary Fiction, Depth, Radiate, Stories, Wisdom

If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.

Animal, Dark, Happy, Sort, Think, Thinking

Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.

Customs, House, Melville, People, Years

I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing.

Thinking, Culture, Problem, Poet, Problems, Increasingly

When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.

Anymore, Book, Editors, Stalinists, Writing

Carl G. Fisher

Carl G. Fisher

David Deutsch

David Deutsch

Saint Monica

Saint Monica

Rodney Atkins

Rodney Atkins

Mark Leibovich

Mark Leibovich

Dacia Maraini

Dacia Maraini

Oswald Grubel

Oswald Grubel

Joe Tex

Claudia Jones

Claudia Jones

Denis McDonough

Denis McDonough

Aaron Yoo

Aaron Yoo

Vince Cable

Vince Cable