2011
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The Cows in The Cows
Lydia Davis’s new chapbook The Cows documents the lives of her neighbor’s cows.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Take THAT, mind bending microcosmos. Finally, our very own mini-me’s. Does this mean we all have to reassess the importance our moon signs? Alien hunt on earth? Psshh I’ve been doing #9 for years.
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WHERE I WRITE #16: In Storms
With the exception of the four years I spent at a small college on the east coast, I’ve lived in Chicago all my life. Anyone who grew up in the Midwest, or spent any significant amount of time there in…
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All Over Coffee #545
Collaboration with Isaac FitzgeraldClick image to enlarge: Written by Isaac Fitzgerald. For more information on collaborative All Over Coffee strips, go to allovercoffee.com. … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in…
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Mark Twain Wanted to Scalp His Critics
Have you checked out Sunday Magazine? It’s writer David Friedman’s site with articles from The New York Times Sunday Magazine exactly 100 years ago from the date he posts. One of the articles for July 30, 1911, “When Mark Twain…
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A Pterodactyl Song
“So…I haven’t read…in 5 and a half years.” David Berman’s baritone voice drizzled out to the 8th floor auditorium at Columbia College in Chicago, sliding shyly over the beige carpet like a hand falling from a bed to the floor…
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Collecting Every Book Ever Published
One might call Brewster Kahle a master archivist. He’s the man behind the Internet Archive, a digital library that stores a copy of every web page posted since 1996. And now he’s set out on another ambitious project: to collect…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Really great piece by Tom Lutz in the LA Review of Books on publishing, newspaper, literature–it’s all over the damn place. But great. Elizabeth Powell on the poet as editor. Via Bookslut, there’s some real problems with the reporting in…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Brian here, subbing in for Seth who’s taking some well-deserved time off. It’s probably just a coincidence that he took off when there’s such a huge week for Rumpus Books. Yeah, that’s it. Come click through and see what Rumpus…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Dream Song 29” by John Berryman
The Dream Songs are, at their best, incantations, syllables given to the unspeakable. And yet, here’s the really unsettling thing: They’re fun. “Dream Song 29,” and the others in 77 Dream Songs, read quickly and lightly. Their rhythms catch in…
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What Went Wrong?
The Association of Writing Programs announced its accepted events for the 2012 convention in Chicago on Friday, and my Facebook page/Twitter feed blew up with joy and anguish alike. The panel I’d been asked to be a part of missed…