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A Window’s for Looking Into

  • Margaret Noonan
  • November 2, 2009
Robin Ekiss’s debut collection of poems explores the relationship between the past and the present with strength, clarity, and emotional intimacy.
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  • Brian Schwartz
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #17: The Spider, the Simpleton and the Nonchalant Catch

  • Brian Schwartz
  • October 31, 2009
Imagine a World Series primer narrated by Kenny Powers, the mullet-headed hero of the HBO comedy series “Eastbound and Down.”
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #6: The Fruit Standkeeper, Wroclaw

  • Steve Almond
  • October 30, 2009
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) The Fruit Standkeeper, Wroclaw His hands are a thing of beauty, long, thick fingers moving in webs grazing apples and…
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Equinox Oral Histories: “I Can Do This On My Own”

  • Daniel Nester
  • October 30, 2009
As part of Daniel Nester’s English 251: Interviews and Oral History class, students took trips down to Equinox, a community services center in downtown Albany, New York, to interview some…
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Sleeper’s Wake

  • Max Ross
  • October 29, 2009
John Wraith’s penis is a neat literary device. It provides character depth and motivation, and is central to every plot twist in the book.
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The Big Book Club

  • Wendy MacLeod
  • October 29, 2009
There are books on the NEA’s list that I haven’t read and undoubtedly should read—but unless I’ve made a New Year’s resolution, I prefer to stumble upon my next book.
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Letters Home

  • Kevin Smokler
  • October 29, 2009
Writing by hand does remind you, primally, of what this crazy thing we do is made of. The careful spilling of ink on paper, the joints and girders of letters.…
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A Squared-Off Landscape Representing the World

  • Rachel Richardson
  • October 28, 2009
A Village Life is the work of a mature poet looking out at the world from a window, but now concerned with the larger cycles in which she participates, instead…
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Newspapers in New York: News Is a Verb

  • Kevin Nolan
  • October 28, 2009
If you won’t read a newspaper on a New York City subway, where will you read it? As zeitgeist, as canary in the mine, the habits of New York subway…
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The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye

  • Rabih Alameddine
  • October 27, 2009
Why do so many of us, as readers or maybe as a society, assume that originality springs forth out of nothing, although at the same time we understand that every idea, every story, has a precedent?
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Waterworld

  • Anya Yurchyshyn
  • October 26, 2009
Loss and longing sit side-by-side with unexpected humor in Laura van den Berg’s stories, reminding readers of the strange things we encounter every day.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #7

  • Ted Wilson
  • October 26, 2009
“WHY I WANT TO VISIT HAWAII” BY FELICIA MCCARTHY ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing…
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