Dr. Metablog is the nom de blague of Vivian de St. Vrain, the pen name of a resident of the mountain west who writes about language, books, politics, or whatever else comes to mind. Under the name Otto Onions (Oh NIGH uns), Vivian de St. Vrain is the author of “The Big Book of False Etymologies” (Oxford, 1978) and, writing as Amber Feldhammer, is editor of the classic anthology of confessional poetry, “My Underwear” (Virago, 1997).
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Elihu Hessel Pearlman was born in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on March 11, 1939, the third of four children of Lilly Usilewski (later Lillian Green) and Emanuel Pearlman. Elihu often remarked that if he were to write an autobiography he would title it “Schoolyard Boy” because it was in the concrete and chain-link-fence “playground”…
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