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Editor of @belt_magazine, Staff Writer @The_Millions, bylines @TheAtlantic, @parisreview, @washingtonpost, @nytimes, PhD in English. Picture by @scteare.
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Will “American” Ever Be a Fully Distinct Language of Its Own?

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More than a decade ago, while on research fellowship at the British Library, I used to while away off-hours at the various pubs in King’s Cross, including a slightly dissolute bar on Cromer Street where in between mysterious meat pies and pints of watery Carling I’d feed the jukebox with pence and soothe a homesick soul with Bruce Springsteen. In retrospect, such maudlin Americanism was embarrassing, though sometimes I had my reasons.
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Is the First-Person Narrator a Uniquely American Idea?

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“I am an American, Chicago born,” begins Saul Bellow’s 1953 novel The Adventures of Augie March, “and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; somethings an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.” Though he was born in Montreal, it was “that somber city” on Lake Michigan where Bellow acquired his American voice, in ample evidence through the propulsive swagger of his most celebrated novel’s first sentence.
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Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday

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Ed Simon Rereads Howl, a ”Genuine Masterpiece” Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark a century ago today. He is totem as much as poet, arguably the most famous American writer of verse in the twentieth-century. There’s the Ginsberg dancing like a shaman in an alleyway behind Bob Dylan in the proto-music video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” the Ginsberg chanting alongside John and Yoko on “Give Peace a Chance,” the Ginsberg played by James Franco and Daniel Radcliffe.
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