What a Long Strange Trip: Six Degrees – From Lord Byron to Kevin Bacon

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The Spring 2010 ‘Arts & Letters‘ issue of Lapham’s Quarterly features this handy graphic; Friends, Lovers and Family.  This incestuous journey through literary history is color coded for your convenience. Writers, Actors, Painters, Architects and their accompanying Muses make up this web of creativity as it meanders it’s way through history, finally coming to an end on the shoulders of Kevin Bacon.

In addition to the usual stellar content, the issue also features a job description posted by Annie Dillard from 1989 when she was living in the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State (available in print issue only)