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My New Book- At the Lost and Found

May 18, 2025 Edward Curtin 6 Comments

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Let Me Now Praise James Agee

May 16, 2025 Edward Curtin 6 Comments

                            James Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) On the Romantic poet John Keats’ tombstone in the…

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Rita Mary Rose Curtin

May 12, 2025 Edward Curtin 2 Comments

My mother at ninety years-old While days like Mother’s Day are corny, they do elicit memories.  I think of my…

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Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town

May 4, 2025 Edward Curtin 1 Comment

“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. What…

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Faust Walked Out on Easter Morning

April 21, 2025 Edward Curtin 3 Comments

Royal Opera House Covent Garden ‘Scene from Goethe’s Faust’ by Edward Henry Corbould, 1852 “All things transient are but a…

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At the Lost and Found

April 11, 2025 Edward Curtin 6 Comments

Nietzsche was right about writers when he said their work is a personal confession, “a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.” No doubt this is true for me.

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The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King, Jr.

April 4, 2025 Edward Curtin 5 Comments

The following article, in a slightly different form, appears in my new book, At the Lost and Found (Clarity Press)…

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Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?

March 24, 2025 Edward Curtin 12 Comments

We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public…

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A Tuneful Irish Tale

March 14, 2025 Edward Curtin 6 Comments

“Accomplished fingers begin to play./Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,/Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.” – W. B. Yeats,…

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Whose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime Between Trump and Zelensky?

March 4, 2025 Edward Curtin 11 Comments

Art requires the use of imagination, but so does political and social analysis. But imagination is just a first step;…

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