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| Rachel Pfeffer and Michael Andre by Rachel Pfeffer |
Suddenly at the University of Chicago I could no longer tolerate literary criticism. I had noticed that anthologies of poetry and anthologies of art criticism seemed to have the same authors--Ashbery, Benedikt, Schjeldahl, O’Hara, et cetera--and all these writers seemed to live in New York. So I transferred to Columbia and decided to interview poets for my dissertation. Why not?
Sexual Politics by Kate Millet had been a Columbia dissertation -- and a
cause celebre.
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