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LaToya Jordan
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Has Technology Made Writers “Unoriginal”?
“Who hasn’t been moved by a great memoir? But I’m sensing that literature—infinite in its potential of ranges and expressions—is in a rut, tending to hit the same note again and again, confining itself to the narrowest of spectrums, resulting…
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Notable New York, This Week 9/19-9/25
This week in New York, Kick Assonance poetry reading at KGB Bar; Damion Searls talks Proust and Ruskin; Center for Book Arts opens fall exhibitions; Page Meets Stage with Suheir Hammad and Beau Sia; The Soundtrack Series; the Asian American…
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Tweetathon for the Short Story
The Brits, more specifically, a UK organization called the Society of Authors, will be highlighting the importance of the short story with a special Tweetathon. The tweetathon features a well-known author tweeting the first line of a story; the next…
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Best Romance Novel Typo Ever
One of my guilty pleasures is reading trashy romance novels. The majority of these novels stick to the same format, with sex scenes that range from tepid to the written version of simulated porn from Skinemax–nothing too raunchy or taboo.…
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Notable New York, This Week 9/12-9/18
This week in New York, an Akilah Oliver Memorial Reading at The New School, non-fiction with The Believer at KGB Bar, Pitchapalooza, Poetry from the Rooftops, The Center for Fiction celebrates The Literarian, a reading with author Tananarive Due, and…
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Drawing Inspiration From Your Insides
“I quit smoking on Halloween 1988. In December 1988 I was walking to work in a snowstorm when I had the biggest sneeze of my life and afterwards found in my hand a clump of living tissue the size, shape,…
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Save St. Mark’s
St. Mark’s Bookshop has lived in New York City since before I was born. And I hope it, and bookstores like it, are around long after I’m gone. It’s a story we seem to be hearing a lot lately, bookstores…
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Notable New York, This Week 9/05-9/11
This week in New York, the West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn, Red Lemonade Launch Party with Kio Stark, Melville House Poetry After 9/11, Red Hen Press authors at Bowery Poetry Club, Mike Geffner’s Inspired Word with Rachel Eliza…
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Coming Out in OutServe Magazine
About a hundred gay, lesbian, and bisexual members of the military will come out to their fellow service members on U.S. Army and Air Force bases in the pages of OutServe Magazine on September 20, 2011. That is the day…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/29-9/04
This week in New York a Post-Irene Open Slam at louderArts, Word for Word poetry at Bryant Park, The Believer magazine celebrates its music issue, free movie at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Seven Against Thebes at East River Park, MoMA PS1…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/22-8/28
This week in New York Amy Waldman reads from The Submission; a book party for Jennifer Close’s Girls in White Dresses; CALYX poetry reading at Bluestockings; a night of prose at KGB Bar; Central Park Film Festival shows Shine a…
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Getting Boys to Read
How can we interest boys in reading when the majority of YA bestsellers are targeted to girls, who are more into books about “mean girls, gossip girls, frenemies and vampires”? Sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, whose most recent books include a…