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From: National Review
Date: 20031124
Author:Brookhiser, Richard

WE are in a slot beneath a Greenwich Village restaurant. The walls are painted brick, close together as in a bad dream, widened only by rows of mirrors and by our faith that the red EXIT signs actually lead somewhere. At the head of the room is a velvet curtain, a stool, a mike, and a music stand. The cover charge is $6, which gets you a drink and two hours of poetry and fiction.

This is not the Village of Edna St. Vincent Millay, carefree and copulating, nor of Dawn Powell, anxious and copulating, nor yet the East Village of Allen Ginsberg, copulating. The writers who are ...

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