“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
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Christopher Merrill
02.24.1957 - PresentChristopher Merril is a poet, journalist, and essayist. He is also the director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
"This, then, is a book composed in the key of terror. Our lives are shaped by ceremonies, expeditions and wars, the origins of which are rooted at least partly in fear."
– Christopher Merrill, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
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"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More