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Serious questions for Serious Literature
I’m pretty sure that madwomen+ road trips + Armageddon + self vs.nature = me. In its archetypes and generational themes, literature has taught us a lot about ourselves, but often this is evidenced by the reactions that it elicits rather…
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Some More on BlazeVOX
Reb Livingston, the publisher of No Tell Books, has written a post about the economics of her own press in the light of the BlazeVOX controversy. What kinds of sales numbers are we talking about for poetry collections? “No Tell…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/6-9/11
This week in San Francisco…!!! Tuesday 9/6: Comedians and collaborators Boots Riley and W. Kamau Bell discuss their careers, dreams, and years of incorporating the political and personal into the totally hilarious. All proceeds go towards the tour for Bell’s…
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September Lit Events in NYC
New York’s September’s got a slew of literary events, brought to you by Housing Works Bookstore Café at 126 Crosby in SoHo. The events range from internet meme-themed variety shows, teacher appreciation happy hours to travel writing book groups, but…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Perhaps you are wondering what the proper protocol is when looking for a yeti in the 50s. Have y’all been following the constitutional goings on in Iceland these days? I go out of town for two weeks and somehow I…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #101
PURPLE NURPLES ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing purple nurples.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Minor Poem” by Bill Knott
Lately, I’ve been feeling full-circlish. As a result, I am choosing to publicly acknowledge the-last-poem-I-loved’s similarity to the first poem that made me want to be a poet. They were both written by Bill Knott, they are both terribly short,…
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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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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’ll be laying low today. Have a good Labor Day. “In Praise of the American Worker,” a slideshow from Life magazine.
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“This is a police state. This is Arizona…”
“This is a police state. This is Arizona, and worse, this is my country. I must remember this moment. I must not forget even if I want, even if, when I’m back home in bed, the whole scene seems impossible.”…
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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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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I’m feeling concise today. Jessa Crispin on sexism in the arts. Flannery O’Connor tweets? (via) A classic but always excellent video: Vonnegut charts a story. (via) At the Paris Review, on William Steig’s art.