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"I could sum up the future in one word," JG Ballard said in 1994, during an interview collected in Extreme Metaphors, the indispensable anthology of Ballard's conversation, "and that word is boring.
This post could be about any one of a number of jazz record producers, label founders, impresarios, whether Alfred Lion, Nesuhi Ertegun, Bob Thiele, Michael Cuscuna, Orrin Keepnews, Milt Gabler (whose extensive interview is one of the highlights of Robert Gottlieb's indispensable anthology "Reading Jazz") or many others.
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But relatively few pieces are opaque, over-written, or over-ambitious, and Granta's anthology remains indispensable for anyone interested in writing in the UK.
Their mutual praise is as affecting as the way they would shyly enclose some stray poem like "The Armadillo" or "Skunk Hour," described as trifling and now an indispensable citizen of our anthologies.
The Kokinshū set the precedent for later court anthologies, and a knowledge of its contents was indispensable to all poets as a guide and source of literary allusions.
The poems have so long been the foundation of modern anthologies that their reputation has almost as long worked against them (the one indispensable poem of the 20th century is still "The Waste Land").
Every "Peanuts" anthology ever.
Indispensable, then.
A Mailer anthology?
JF Anthology.
(An anthology was released last year).
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