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Beckett and the Guy from New Jersey: A Conversation About Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others

A few weeks ago, the literature blog HTMLGiant hosted a heated discussion about whether or not difficult modernist novels like James Joyce’s Ulysses might find a publisher in today’s literary…

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Swinging Modern Sounds #15: On Technique

In popular music circles, these days, very good instrumental technique is often considered bad form.

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Rooms of Their Own

Three generations of women cope with isolation, grief, and sex, in the first novel by the celebrated story writer, Rachel Sherman.

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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #4: Duck

(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Duck They were so young, this couple still new to their stories, looking ahead and not looking, locked into marriage.…

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A Short, Personal History of Small, Independent Publishing (1995-2009)

Guys do a lot of things for girls’ attention, and my involvement with Mused Magazine was one of those things.

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The Organization of Pain and Joy

Tom Healy’s first collection of poems, What the Right Hand Knows, is fashioned entirely of artful silence and alluring reticence.

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FUNNY WOMEN #3: Q: “What Will You Do with an MFA in Poetry?”

A: First of all, you can put away your old-school notions about the liberal arts. Back when you grew up, Plato banished poets from his Republic. These days, there is…

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The Rumpus Review of Jennifer’s Body

It’s funny, the word choice in the title of Jennifer’s Body, the gory horror-comedy from, improbably enough, the writer and producers of Juno, 2007’s teen pregnancy comedy.

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Fables of the Reconstruction

With patience reminiscent of Tolstoy, Cornelia Nixon weaves a tapestry of events to explain how an ordinary girl in post-Civil War Maryland kills her lover and gets away with it.

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Where God and the Devil Wheel Like Vultures: Report from El Paso

There’s a story here, but it exists in illogical fragments, chaotic subtexts, and poverty economics cured in the meth-soaked algebra of need, greed and corruption. And eventually it all plays…

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