• Adam Kirsch (born 1976) is an American poet and literary critic. He is on the seminar faculty of Columbia University's Center for American Studies, and...
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  • "laureate of American lowlife". Regarding his enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal ... [is that]...
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  • publications. He is also the author of ten books, and a critic. His son, Adam Kirsch, is an American poet and literary critic. Bad Moon Rising (1977) Lovers...
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  • literary creation that is constructed with the veneer of what the writer Adam Kirsch calls "a pulp fiction hero." Works of fiction that feature the character...
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  • Kirsch is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Kirsch (born 1976), an American book critic and writer Brandon Kirsch (born...
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  • and Stalin's Moscow, to Dracula's castle and the bottom of the sea." Adam Kirsch in Slate: "2666 is an epic of whispers and details, full of buried structures...
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    royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel". Disraeli's biographer, Adam Kirsch, suggests that Disraeli's obsequious treatment of his queen was part...
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    Representative (R-IL) Adam Kirby (born 1988), British jockey Adam Kirkor (1818–1886), Polish publisher, journalist, and archeologist Adam Kirsch (born 1976), American...
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    award to U Thant. The Literature Prize also has controversial omissions. Adam Kirsch has suggested that many notable writers have missed out on the award...
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    Derek Parker Royal (founder of the Philip Roth Society) Literary critics Adam Kirsch and Liel Leibovitz discussing Philip Roth's career; Some of his interview...
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  • was captured shortly thereafter, and soon sent to Auschwitz. Kirsch 2015. Kirsch, Adam (September 20, 2015). "Primo Levi's Unlikely Suicide Haunts His...
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  • 1994 novel by French author Michel Houellebecq, has been labeled by Adam Kirsch in The New York Times as a "proto-incel" with the novel as a whole being...
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    started seeing Martin Heidegger again, and had what the American writer Adam Kirsch called a "quasi-romance", lasting for two years, with the man who had...
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    plain statement, of instantaneously public images which concern us all". Adam Kirsch has written that some of Plath's works, like "Daddy", are self-mythologizing...
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  • Lowell. Most critics (including Helen Vendler, Steven Gould Axelrod, Adam Kirsch, and others) consider it one of Lowell's most important books, and the...
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    attitude, functioning as "catnip for a listicle-obsessed internet". Adam Kirsch noted that books such as Roth's American Pastoral (1997) indicate that...
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  • Wieseltier's reply at the Wayback Machine (archived November 14, 2012) Adam Kirsch, "If Men Are From Mars, What's God" in The New York Sun. James Brookfield...
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  • historian Jo Livingstone, culture staff writer Suki Kim, contributing editor Adam Kirsch, poet and critic Alvaro Vargas Llosa, writer John McWhorter, linguist...
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    New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972: 106–107. ISBN 0-02-788680-8 Adam Kirsch, The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered, Harvard Magazine, Volume 103, Number...
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  • as Adam Kirsch commented that the book was "macho," which explained "why it has been received so enthusiastically by the critics." However, Kirsch's overall...
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    included book critics Michael Dirda, Brooke Allen, Laura Miller, and Adam Kirsch, as well as prominent writers in fields outside of literary criticism...
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  • early team included Fraser Bullock, Robert F. White, Joshua Bekenstein, Adam Kirsch, and Geoffrey S. Rehnert. Romney initially held the titles of president...
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    Britain: A Series of Biographies. S. Low, Marston & Company, Limited. Adam Kirsch, 2008. Benjamin Disraeli. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 162....
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    For instance, in The New Yorker review of The Poetry of Derek Walcott, Adam Kirsch had high praise for Walcott's oeuvre, describing his style in the following...
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    Kabbalah. New York, NY: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company. Adam Kirsch (15 February 2010). "The Other Secret Jews". The New Republic. Archived...
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  • Maria Morris; Rosenheim, Jeff L.; Dennett, Alexandra; Garner, Philippe; Kirsch, Adam; Prins, Harald E. L.; Zatse, Vasilios (2017-04-21). Irving Penn: Centennial...
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  • Twentieth-Century American Short Story, New York: Columbia University Press Adam Kirsch, "Smashed," Archived 2018-01-02 at the Wayback Machine The New Yorker...
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    it had no plans to sell The Harvard Classics one book at a time. As Adam Kirsch, writing for Harvard magazine in 2001, notes, "It is surprisingly easy...
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  • been amplified, by more conservative contemporary poetry critics like Adam Kirsch and William Logan who both wrote highly critical reviews of Crane's work...
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  • thinks they will. As a complement to Miller's criticism about tragedy, Adam Kirsch sees comedy as undercut as well, although parody remains: The gaudy names...
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