Chekhov's Mistress
That Is Then This Was Now
From the recent New Yorker profile of John Ashbery:
“Ashbery didn’t have any money to begin with, and even now that he’s a celebrated and canonical poet he still can’t make enough from his poetry to get by.”
From the forward to Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare:
“The 1920’s were great for Mark [Van Doren]. …he edited an anthology of world poetry that sold so well it enabled the van Dorens to buy their house on Bleeker Street in the West Village in February 1929…”
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Unfortunately all to true and I don’t see it getting any better.
– Steve (12/11 at 10:33 PM)
The keyword here is anthology. Textbooks make money. I don’t quite know how, but even *I* have made a few hundred bucks off of textbooks. I don’t know about the house on Bleecker St., however. That’s too discouraging to contemplate. This little rented closet in Jersey City is feeling a bit cramped…
– Anne (12/13 at 07:36 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: December 11, 2005
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Wise Men Fish Here: Literature
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