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James Franco's Hart Crane biopic, 'The Broken Tower' [video]

Los Angeles Times (blog) - Jan 12, 2012
One of the first literary properties that James Franco gobbled up was the biography of poet Hart Crane, "The Broken Tower" by Paul Mariani. I admit, I didn't know much about Crane -- I hadn't encountered his poetry, and he'd died long before I was born ...

James Franco and Boston College professor Paul Mariani team up

The Boston Globe - Jan 8, 2012
The movie, directed by and starring Franco, is based on a book by Mariani about poet Hart Crane. “The Broken Tower,'' which gets its Video on Demand release this Tuesday, is notable for two reasons. A biopic about the American Modernist poet Hart Crane ...

Independent Hair Salons in New York

New York Times - Jan 25, 2012
This salon is on the ground floor of a former West Village boardinghouse that was visited by the poet Hart Crane and Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Named for Samuel Whittemore, a manufacturer who built the building, the salon has ...

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The Complete Poems of Hart Crane

by: Hart Crane

"Crane's poetry has been a touchstone for me, and remains central to a fully imaginative understanding of American literature."—Harold Bloom

This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, Crane died at sea on April 27, 1932, an apparent suicide.
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Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life

by: Evan Hughes

For the first time, here is Brooklyn's story through the eyes of its greatest storytellers.

Like Paris in the twenties or postwar Greenwich Village, Brooklyn today is experiencing an extraordinary cultural boom. In recent years, writers of all stripes—from Jhumpa Lahiri, Jennifer Egan, and Colson Whitehead to Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer—have flocked to its patchwork of distinctive neighborhoods. But as literary critic and journalist Evan Hughes reveals, the rich literary life now flourishing in Brooklyn is part of a larger, fascinating history.
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The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life

by: Harold Bloom

"Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate."

For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
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Taking Tennessee to Hart

by: Joe Stockdale
In 1983, when the esteemed American playwright Tennessee Williams was close to death, he added a codicil to his will directing that his body be wrapped in a clean white sack and buried at sea at the same spot— in the Atlantic Ocean off the Jupiter Light north of West Palm Beach—where one of his idols, the poet Hart Crane, had jumped to his death from a ship returning to New York from Mexico. Unfortunately, Tennessee’s wishes weren’t granted and he was interred in the family plot in St.
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