Brad Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and essayist. He lives in
Massachusetts.
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The Thrill of Unfamiliar Voices
March 10, 2011
Twigs and Knucklebones
by Sarah Lindsay
A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck
by Greg Williamson
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On Moon River
April 8, 2010
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
edited by Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger, and Eric Davis
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Voices in the Heartland
December 3, 2009
A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore
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There Once Was an Artist Called Lear…
November 5, 2009
Edward Lear in Albania: Journals of a Landscape Painter in the Balkans
by Edward Lear, edited by Bejtullah Destani and Robert Elsie, with a preface by Vivien Noakes
Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer
by Vivien Noakes
The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense
by Edward Lear, edited by Vivien Noakes
Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets
by Edward Lear
Nonsense Songs and Stories
by Edward Lear
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Old Globe
May 29, 2008
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Glassed In
April 17, 2008
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943–63
edited by David Wagoner
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‘Notes on Susan’: An Exchange
September 27, 2007
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The Shadow Man
August 16, 2007
Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice
edited by Peter MacDonald
Louis MacNeice
by Jon Stallworthy
Louis MacNeice and His Influence
edited by Kathleen Devineand Alan J. Peacock
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Lorenz
October 19, 2006
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside
March 9, 2006
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
by Joanna Kavenna
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
by Mariana Gosnell
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Love in a Cold Climate
October 6, 2005
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Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)
December 2, 2004
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Zodiac: a Farewell
November 18, 2004
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Keats Is the One
September 23, 2004
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A Passionate Clamor
April 29, 2004
The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
edited by Norman H. MacKenzie
The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins
edited by Humphry House and Graham Storey
The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges
edited with notes and an introduction by Claude Colleer Abbott
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Young Old Soldiers
December 4, 2003
Poets of World War II
edited by Harvey Shapiro
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Equatorial Triptych
October 23, 2003
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The Awkward Age
December 19, 2002
Penrod
by Booth Tarkington
Penrod and Sam
by Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington
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Laxness the Great
October 10, 2002
Paradise Reclaimed
by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson, with an introduction by Jane Smiley
The Fish Can Sing
by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson
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Pogo
June 27, 2002
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Lyrics in the Swamp
April 25, 2002
Pogo, Volumes 1–11
by Walt Kelly
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Golden Notebooks
December 20, 2001
The Complete Sagas of Icelanders
edited by Vidar Hreinsson
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection
with a preface by Jane Smiley and an introduction by Robert Kellogg
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Frequent Fliers
July 5, 2001
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
Sue Halpern
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A Betting Man
May 31, 2001
Bells Are Ringing music by Jule Styne, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, directed by Tina Landau, and starring Faith Prince
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Mock Argument
May 31, 2001
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Tough Cookie
April 26, 2001
The Oxford Book of Sonnets edited by John Fuller
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Gaiety Redeemed
June 29, 2000
Mayflies: New Poems and Translations
by Richard Wilbur
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Broadway
February 10, 2000
Stephen Sondheim: A Life
by Meryle Secrest
Putting It Together 20, 2000 a revue by Stephen Sondheim, directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, by 1999-February at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, November 21
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On to Berlin
June 24, 1999
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Let’s Face the Music
April 22, 1999
Annie Get Your Gun music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, as revised by Peter Stone, directed by Graciela Daniele, starring Bernadette Peters. at the Marquis Theater, New York City
Irving Berlin: American Troubadour
by Edward Jablonski
Irving Berlin: A Life in Song
by Philip Furia
Irving Berlin: A Daughter’s Memoir
by Mary Ellin Barrett
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He’s the Top!
November 5, 1998
Cole Porter: A Biography
by William McBrien
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Cat and Mustang: a Still Life
October 8, 1998
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End of an Epic
March 26, 1998
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Here To Stay
October 17, 1996
Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist by Philip Furia
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America’s Great Lyricists by Philip Furia
The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin edited by Robert Kimball
Gershwin: His Life and Music
by Charles Schwartz
Lyrics on Several Occasions by Ira Gershwin
The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin by Joan Peyser
Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin
by Deena Rosenberg
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Getting Things Right
September 19, 1996
New and Selected Poems
by Donald Justice
Strange Relation by Daniel Hall
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Great Old Modern
August 8, 1996
Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays edited by Richard Poirier, edited by Mark Richardson
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Notions of Freedom
February 15, 1996
The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry edited by Kathleen Scherf
Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by Gordon Bowker
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A Small Country’s Great Book
May 11, 1995
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After the Detonation of the Moon
February 16, 1995
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Barely Sighted Lives
October 20, 1994
New Things Come into the World by Peter Kane Dufault
The Invention of the Zero by Richard Kenney
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Great Scott?
August 11, 1994
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli
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Cold Comfort
April 21, 1994
Absolution by Olafur Jóhann Olafsson
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‘Sweep on, O River ’
December 16, 1993
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume One: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman edited by John Hollander
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals edited by John Hollander
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Just Folks
January 16, 1992
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
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Any Place You Want
March 15, 1990
Vineland
by Thomas Pynchon
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Microscopy
August 17, 1989
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
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A Master’s Legacy
September 29, 1988
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh
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Signalled
June 16, 1988
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Small Wonder
January 15, 1987
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Out of Exile
June 12, 1986
The African Witch by Joyce Cary
Mr. Johnson by Joyce Cary
Herself Surprised by Joyce Cary
To Be a Pilgrim by Joyce Cary
The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary
Prisoner of Grace by Joyce Cary
Except the Lord by Joyce Cary
Not Honour More by Joyce Cary
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Poet for a Dark Age
February 13, 1986
A Summoning of Stones by Anthony Hecht
The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
Millions of Strange Shadows by Anthony Hecht
The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht
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Irresistible Demons
November 21, 1985
Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony H. Chambers
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Playing with Fire
September 26, 1985
Late Settings by James Merrill
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Seahorses
June 13, 1985
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An Actor Plays a Trumpet
February 28, 1985