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Literary Imagination 2009 11(2):216-227; doi:10.1093/litimag/imp013
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An Autumnal Journal

(Fall 2006)

Richard Stern

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The following pieces were composed as posts written for the New Republic's blog, "Open University," between 2006 and 2008. I regarded them as "etudes," attempts to write about current events in more freeform fashion. There are poems and playlets as well as semi-reportorial, personal responses to current events. The hope was that a chopin-like lyricism might preserve some of them beyond the day.

October 25, 2006

I’ve just heard President Bush's not ineloquent description of the war that the rational, peace-loving people of the world are waging against the evil murderers who hate liberty, democracy, and peace. He speaks of this as a war very different from but comparable in importance to the war against fascism which concluded the year before he was born. I was alive and aware during that war, and as far as quality of national life goes, it did not resemble the life we are . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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