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Revelations about literary life from the dead poets society

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Revelations about literary life from the dead poets society

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It’s 1964. Allen Ginsberg is importuning his old Columbia professor Lionel Trilling to write a letter to the Guggenheim Foundation to land Ginsberg a grant. (“I just want money to subsist whatever I do.”)
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