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The Twilight of Students' Radical Reading

What happened to Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg?

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 8, 2009 4:03 PM CDT

(Newser) – A few decades ago, college kids turned to radicals to satisfy their literary thirst, but on today’s campuses, “you're more likely to hear a werewolf howl than Allen Ginsberg,” writes Ron Charles in the Washington Post. Other than Barack Obama’s tomes,... Read full story »

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