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Paul Keane

Who cares — who even realizes — that a Russian poet died at age 83 last week? We are much more caught up in Russian hacking than Russian poetry. Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote a poem about a girl I saw at breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day in 1969 and...

Willem Lange

MontpelierA few years ago, when I signed up with a new personal care provider in central Vermont, she asked, “What are your goals for your health care in the coming years?” She didn’t say it, but I knew what she meant, which was “in the few short...

By Kevin O’Connor

After a long day at the office, some people lose themselves in a good book. The late editor Maxwell Perkins — the man who discovered such talents as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe — had to find solace elsewhere.In his case, the...

Paul Keane

What The Thornton Wilder Society recently did would have been unthinkable many years ago. It announced that Wilder, who died in 1975 as America’s most honored writer (three Pulitzers and a National Book Award) had lived his life as a “deeply closeted”...