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Paul Zweig
1935–1984
Paul Zweig grew up in Brooklyn and lived in France for a decade beginning in the 1950s. He was a poet, literary and social critic, and memoirist. An assistant professor at Columbia University and later an instructor at Queens College of the City University of New York, Zweig wrote a two-volume memoir, discussing his illness and impending death.
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Departures
I wasn’t a very political adolescent. I had grown up surrounded by unexplained cautions, by ellipses, and all these silences had sealed off the public world, so that I didn’t really believe in it…