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The Home Key #12

Every Good Song Pete Townshend Wrote After Quadrophenia, An Annotation

Rick Moody

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Adam Braver
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Cornelius Eady (Tie by Susan Micklem)

The Home Key #3:

An Interview with Cornelius Eady

Rick Moody
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The Home Key #2

An Interview with Jon Klages

Rick Moody
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The Death of the Artist, Excellent Sheep:

An Interview with William Deresiewicz

Robert Boyers

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

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Music of Survival

Terence Diggory
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Letter From London

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Elegy as Tonic

On Now It’s Dark

Marjorie Perloff
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Disorders of Articulation

Charles Bernstein
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Salmagundi # 182-183, Spring - Summer 2014
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The Home Key #6:

Get Back

Rick Moody

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Marc Woodworth

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Adam Braver
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Rick Moody, Life Coach:

Siblings

Rick Moody
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What to Teach, What to Read

Preface to a Symposium

Salmagundi 210 - 211, Spring - Summer 2021

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Pandemic Cinema

Amy Woodbury Tease
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The Home Key #1

An Interview with Peter Stampfel

Rick Moody
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Rick Moody, Life Coach

The Difficulty of Action During the Pandemic

Rick Moody
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An Utterance That Becomes a Person

On Now It’s Dark

Charles Bernstein
Online Essays

Looking for Bucharest

Bonnie Costello

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

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Suppose then that, at some level, Trump’s deepest supporters picked up the signal that he lived and thrived for their sins and (because he was a winner) washed them clean. They would make allowances for his nastiness, explain it away, because they bonded with him as a giant of a man. He was their avenger against an unholy America that wages war on their righteousness, forcing their own racist and xenophobic impulses underground (even to the point of suppressing the knowledge that they had felt and suppressed them). In the dark imagination where their longings live, they can pass through the celestial looking glass into a purified world.
This excerpt appears in For the Love of Sin, by

Todd Gitlin

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