REQUIRED READING

Two superb longer pieces demand your attention this week.  Continuing last week's "really, really smart" theme, you will want to print out and make time for both Wyatt Mason's NYT Magazine profile of TEV favorite Frederick Seidel ...

Seidel’s subjects became not those of his past reading or early living but of his present life or, if you like, his class. He became, to use his word, “unapologetic” — in taste, in tone, in everything. For if, as it turned out, Seidel was lucky; if he could exploit