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Laurence Goldstein

More Farewells to Marilyn

“More Farewells to Marilyn,” excerpted here, is from MQR’s Summer 2022 Issue. You can purchase the issue here. Whether she was called “Marilyn,” or “Norma Jeane,” or “MM,” or the recognizable names Joyce Carol Oates assigns her in Blonde: A Novel, her face and figure were instantly recognized around the world as the 1950s most fascinating—and arguably most […]

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“More Farewells to Marilyn,” excerpted here, is from MQR’s Summer 2022 Issue. You can purchase the issue here. Whether she was called “Marilyn,” or “Norma Jeane,” or “MM,” or the recognizable names Joyce Carol Oates assigns her in Blonde: A Novel, her face and figure were instantly recognized around the world as the 1950s most fascinating—and arguably most

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I was stunned by the long first paragraph of “Harmony of the World.” I set down the story and took a deep breath, thinking that if the rest of the story were this well written and as secure in its rhetorical structure, this narrative would fulfill Milton’s prescription for greatness. It would be read appreciatively a hundred years hence, just as in 1980 we read short fiction by Henry James and Stephen Crane, and poems by Emily Dickinson.

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I was stunned by the long first paragraph of “Harmony of the World.” I set down the story and took a deep breath, thinking that if the rest of the story were this well written and as secure in its rhetorical structure, this narrative would fulfill Milton’s prescription for greatness. It would be read appreciatively a hundred years hence, just as in 1980 we read short fiction by Henry James and Stephen Crane, and poems by Emily Dickinson.

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