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“... autumn of 1950. They had a ‘pleasant talk’. In True Nature, his new biography of Matthiessen, Lance Richardson speculates that they may have discussed poetry. Both men were protégés of Norman Holmes Pearson, an instructor in the English department at Yale. Pearson was a correspondent of Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens as well as ...”

“... who kills herself halfway through the thickest broadsheet. The amputee’s first boyfriend, Lance, disappeared ‘travelling’ after she had an abortion. There’s a harrowing scene in which the girl’s mother tells her that he telephoned: ‘I completely forgot to tell you … He didn’t ask for your number, either, so I didn’t volunteer it. I ...”

“... off. Somewhere over on the other side of town, the O.J. Simpson jury sat in sequestration. Judge Lance Ito had decreed, in yet another of his loopy rulings, that they should not even be allowed to watch the Oscars on TV. He feared, irrationally but not without reason, that there might be some O.J. gags during the proceedings and that these might be ...”