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An enticing review of Christopher-Sawyer Laucanno's biography of E.E. Cummings. Dramatic, revealing, and tragic are the three words that come to mind:

"If a great night on the town for Cummings consisted of getting sloshed in one of the dives on Boston's Washington Street, then navigating Scollay Square with its prostitutes, then maybe taking in the raunchy burlesque show at the Old Howard; for Thayer a fabulous evening was to have his chauffeur drive him and select company to the Ritz, to the opera, to a recital at Symphony Hall, or perhaps to give a dress party in his elegant lodgings."

And this is just the beginning...

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