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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>I&#8217;m happy to see that<br>
<a href="http://www.michaellally.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Lally</span></a><br>
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about the effects of<br>
<a href="http://lallysalley.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>brain surgery</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Geoffrey Gatza&#8217;s Thanksgiving Feast<br>
menu poem extravaganza<br>
this year is dedicated to<br>
<a href="http://www.blazevox.org/thanksgiving2009.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>C.D. Wright</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://mimeomimeo.blogspot.com/2009/11/mottram-effect.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mottram</span></a> Effect<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.theworld.org/2009/11/25/illegal-letters-in-turkey/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Q, W &amp; X</span></a><br>
are still illegal in Turkey<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.pogsound.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pogsound</span></a>:<br>
a great archive of readings in Tucson<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html#4110098566074683699"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>kari edwards&#8217;</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Bharat jiva<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2009 George Oppen Memorial Lecture:<br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161429730955"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rosmarie Waldrop</span></a><br>
San Francisco, Dec. 16<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091214/mlinko"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mlinko&#8217;s Rilke</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Laura Elrick&#8217;s <a href="http://seapoetryseries.blogspot.com/2009/11/laura-elricks-stalk-on-thursday_06.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stalk</span></a><br>
Dec. 10 in NYC<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006/06/poetry/poetry-ecology-and-the-reappropriation-of-lived-space"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry, Ecology,<br>
and the Reappropriation<br>
of Lived Space</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2009/11/the-ancient-use-of-stone-ray-dipalmas-words-pictures-terence-winch.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ray DiPalma&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Ancient Use of Stone<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/13/jack-and-jill"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Homophoning</span></a><br>
&#8220;Jack &amp; Jill&#8221; into French<br>
back in the 18<sup>th</sup> Century<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=9471&amp;catid=85&amp;volume_id=452&amp;issue_id=460&amp;volume_num=44&amp;issue_num=08"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sara Larsen &amp; David Brazil</span></a><br>
about one little mag I&#8217;ve never seen<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/27/all-female-shortlist-bbc-national-short-story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>all-women shortlist</span></a><br>
for BBC short story prize<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>As compared to<br>
&#8220;a <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2009/11/gender-confusion-on-literary-sausage-parties.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>literary sausage party</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1427831"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry as Power</span></a>:<br>
The Dynamics of Cognitive Poetics<br>
as a Scientific &amp; Literary Paradigm<br>
(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com/2009/12/36-confetti-allegiance.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Confetti allegiance</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23518"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Google</span></a> has digitized<br>
10,000,000 books<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/pages/events/fall09openhouse.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>SPD&#8217;s annual open house</span></a><br>
is December 6 -<br>
<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>20-50% off all books! <br>
Hundreds of Buck-a-Book $1 books!<br>
Plus readings &amp; a poetry trading post</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/11/think-outside-haggis.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>MacDiarmid&#8217;s</span></a> muse&#8217;s menu<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://delsolreview.webdelsol.com/dsr16/codrescu.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Andrei Codrescu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don DeLillo&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/11/30/091130fi_fiction_delillo"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Midnight in Dostoevsky</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Close reading aloud <a href="http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/2009/11/lindsay.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vachel Lindsay</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Lindsay.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vachel Lindsay</span></a> reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lindsay as a sound poet:<br>
&#8220;<a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Lindsay/Lindsay-Vachel_5_Mysterious-Cat_New-York_1931.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mysterious Cat</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Who&#8217;s been eating my <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.towntopics.com/nov2509/book.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Naked Lunch</span></a></i>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/27/poster-poems-englynion"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Englynion</span></a> &#8211;<br>
Britain&#8217;s answer to the haiku<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://splab.org/?p=250"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brenda Hillman</span></a> <br>
at Open Books<br>
in Seattle<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The fate of<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/12/nwr-slashes-slush.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Northwest Review</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is sending <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/nov/24/catullus-mark-lowe"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Catullus</span></a> a form of assault?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wikipedia&#8217;s</span></a> translation<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://omniglot.com/index.htm"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Omniglot</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/23/the-book-of-the-new-sun-science-fiction-ulysses"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gene Wolfe&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Book of the New Sun &#8211; <br>
</i>a <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ulysses </i>for sci-fi?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tweets lead to hard time<br>
for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/movies/01arts-PULPFICTIONW_BRF.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roger Avary</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/30/borders-end-book-world"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The demise of Borders</span></a><br>
is not the end of bookselling<br>
in the UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/30/twitter-declared-top-word-of-2009"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>top word for 2009</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2009/12/philip-levine-on-robert-lowell-and-john-berryman-by-laura-orem.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Philip Levine</span></a><br>
on Robert Lowell &amp; John Berryman<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-239.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2010 Library of Congress</span></a><br>
radio lineup announced<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Finding <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/rare-darwin-book-found-on-toilet-bookcase-1825928.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Darwin</span></a> on the toilet<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/100-notable-books-of-2009-gift-guide/list.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Only 2 books of poetry</span></a> &#8211;<br>
both Quietist &#8211;<br>
make <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The NY Times<br>
</i>notable books of 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prognosticating <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/12/prognosticaing-ebooks-in-the-new-near.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>e-books</span></a> for 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://versemag.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-review-of-christian-peet.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Christian Peet&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Big American Trip<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bringing back <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/01/orhan-pamuk-tanpinar-literary-festival"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/nyregion/19bagels.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp;s</span></a> in court<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What&#8217;s new with the <a href="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/the-digital-ramble-typography/?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>font freaks</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/a-christmas-rewrite-as-dickens-edits-dickens/?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dickens edits Dickens</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thefastertimes.com/nonsensepolls/2009/11/20/nonsense-poll-which-suicidal-poet-would-you-rather-sleep-with-vote/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The poetry poll</span></a><br>
with the worst taste<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/the-11-most-fashionable-pulitzer-prize-winners/13312"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Almost as bad</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/30/bad-sex-award-jonathan-littell-kindly-ones"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bad Sex</span></a> prize goes to<br>
an American in Paris<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/19/bad-sex-factor-prize-shortlist"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why</span></a> they call it a &#8220;short list&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/254326291/homeless-on-the-home-front"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Simic</span></a> on being homeless<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>James Wood on <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/30/091130crbo_books_wood"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Auster</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/arts/design/01poe.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A year to die for</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yours truly<br>
at <a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/12/18349260_077963a19a_o.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poe&#8217;s tomb</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An obit for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/20/marcel-proust-death-novelist"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marcel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.danwei.org/people/yang_xianyi_dies_at_95.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yang Xianyi</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What killed <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/01/jane-austen-tuberculosis-death"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jane Austen</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/6687/collected-works"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yeats&#8217; Blake</span></a><br>
(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://bit.ly/4QrF5L"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cormac McCarthy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Want to buy <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/books/01typewriter.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>McCarthy&#8217;s typewriter</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bid <a href="http://bit.ly/6Ndv2n"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>here</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2009/11/25/john-hillcoat-s-adaptation-of-the-road-is-too-faithful.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Road</span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>is too faithful to the book<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/12/typewriters.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Collectible typewriters</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Or you could buy some <a href="//www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hNtnPhW8p4-0zXcCgYMgeldlX4lQ"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Baudelaire</span></a><br>
(including a suicide note)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Here come the <a href="http://my-nepenthe.blogspot.com/2009/11/humping-letters.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>interCaps</span></a><br>
(as those of us <br>
at <a href="http://www.computerland.com/about/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>ComputerLand</span></a> called them<br>
in the 1980s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/walter-benjamin-and-bertolt-brecht-by-erdmut-wizisla-trans-christine-shuttleworth-1828444.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Walter Benjamin &amp; Bertholt Brecht</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>&#167;</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A short history of <a  href="http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1244/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>hello</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Who&#8217;s afraid of <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1402163"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the big bad Whorf</span></a>?<br>
(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>When <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236156/pagenum/all/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roald Dahl</span></a><br>
became a children&#8217;s author<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Finding the <a href="http://jacobrussellsbarkingdog.blogspot.com/2009/11/writers-journal.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>right readers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/books/review/Bakopoulos-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brad Leithauser&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Art Student&#8217;s War<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/books/review/Cohen-t.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alice Munro&#8217;s</span></a> Object <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/books/30book.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lesson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.themillions.com/2009/12/a-year-in-reading-phillip-lopate.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Phillip Lopate:</span></a><br>
My favorite book from 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://versemag.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-review-of-novica-tadic.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Novica Tadi&#263;&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Dark Things<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/slaughterhouse-five.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vonnegut&#8217;s</span></a> letter home<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What we talk about<br>
when we talk about<br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/6DwHUW"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>style</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The library in a <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/11/library-phone-booth.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>phone booth</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/01/libraries-sell-books-minister-margaret-hodge"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Libraries</span></a> should sell books<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Translating <a href="http://bit.ly/8t1ONy"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tolstoy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.signandsight.com/features/321.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jonathan Franzen</span></a>:<br>
Germany is like my parents<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/29/france-stendhal-transcripts-university-grenoble"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stendahl</span></a> arrives on the <a href="http://stendhal.msh-alpes.fr/manuscrits/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>web</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/24/AR2009112403014.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Washington Post</span></a></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><br>
closes all domestic bureaus<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114173942"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Zadie Smith</span></a><br>
changes her mind <br>
(&amp; genre)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Three of the world&#8217;s <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/28333/scrabble-world-lost-for-words-at-thai-win"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>top 5 Scrabble players</span></a><br>
are Thai<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/12/07/091207fi_fiction_mcewan"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ian McEwan:</span></a><br>
&#8220;The Use of Poetry&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Wood on <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n23/michael-wood/a-lot-of-travail"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eliot&#8217;s</span></a> letters<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2009/11/the-bolano-myth-and-the-backlash-cycle.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bolaño</span></a> Myth<br>
&amp; the Backlash Cycle<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Some stray questions<br>
for <a href="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/stray-questions-for-roberto-bolano/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roberto Bolaño</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/28/book-club-unseen-academicals-pratchett"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Terry Pratchett&#8217;s</span></a> jokes<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/01/AR2009120103657.html?hpid=sec-artsliving"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Unseen Academicals</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/26/christopher-tayler/tenuously-reformed-pervert/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>James Ellroy,</span></a><br>
tenuously reformed pervert<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.theamericanscholar.org/writing-about-writers/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Writing about writers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/11/22/lifetravel/4668572&amp;sec=lifetravel"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Burns&#8217; legacy</span></a> &#8220;burns on&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20091125_Via_simplicity__a_poet_attains_the_universal.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Franz Wright&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Wheeling Motel<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/weekend-competition-novel-eponyms/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eponyms</span></a> &#1071; Them<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World,&#8221;<br>
starting with the <a href="http://www.utne.com/Politics/50-Visionaries-Changing-Your-World-Hope-2009.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dali Lama &amp; Christian Bök</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Feminist Review </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/11/girldrive-criss-crossing-america.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>GirlDrive</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The death of <a href="http://thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/where-has-all-the-cool-gone-16159.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>cool</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Some <a href="http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/culture/3796"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>books that inspired musicians</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rockpile</span></a> files<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://sundaymorning.tumblr.com/post/55634494/jack-kerouac-aint-we-got-fun-vocals-jack"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Kerouac</span></a> sings<br>
&#8220;<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/11/jack-kerouac-sings.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ain&#8217;t We Got Fun</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Examining &#8220;<a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/category/poets-off-poetry"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Your Love</span></a>&#8221; by The Outfield<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/arts/music/01hawes.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bess Lomax Hawes</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Some rare clips of <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Fast-Forward-episode-with-rare-1976-Dylan-clip-available-on-line"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bob Dylan&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Hard Rain<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/6654478/Top-ten-great-singers-who-cant-sing.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ten great singers</span></a><br>
who can&#8217;t sing<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/satchmo-and-the-jews-15265?page=all"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Satchmo</span></a> &amp; the Jews<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.jazzreview.com/cd/review-20812.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vijay Iyer&#8217;s</span></a> <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Historicity<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Art of the <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/japan-even-barcodes-are-well-designed"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>bar code</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The visual art of <a href="http://yeddamorrison.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yedda Morrison</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The disappearance of <a href="http://www.believermag.com/issues/200911/?read=article_mason"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ford Beckman</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23771736-truth-about-the-sex-trade-from-edward-kienholz.do"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edward Keinholz</span></a><br>
&amp; the sex trade <br>
at the National Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=383"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Manga</span></a> at the British Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Artist whose medium<br>
is <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/30/DDNA1AM4DK.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>hardware store windows</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://globespotters.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/accessing-and-making-art-in-hong-kong/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Social painting</span></a>&#8221; at <a href="http://www.artjamming.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Art Jamming</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://poetography.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetography</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prison photography</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.swans.com/library/art15/pbyrne114.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Frank</span></a>:<br>
never on time<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2784"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Andy Warhol</span></a> never died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/movies/29dargis.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Warhol&#8217;s</span></a> screenwriter<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article6921655.ece"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alan Bennett&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Habit of Art<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://onewaystreet.typepad.com/one_way_street/2009/12/renzo-piano-the-architect-as-pirate.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Renzo Piano</span></a>:<br>
the architect as pirate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1123807"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cultural Cognition</span></a><br>
as a Conception<br>
of the Cultural Theory of Risk<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/mega-media-era-begins-gev_b_359386.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Big Media</span></a> gets quite a bit bigger<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What is living &amp; what is dead in<br>
<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23519"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>social democracy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.kenningeditions.com/?p=85"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fiona Templeton</span></a> &amp; Poets Theater<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2009/11/hail.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hail, poetry!</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://gs164.photobucket.com/groups/u32/LPHZTN76I0/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tan Lin Chalk Playground &amp; LitTwitChalk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A review by <a href="http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=6153"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thom Donovan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
 
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sibila.com.br/index.php/sibila-english/873-arkadii-dragomoshchenko"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Arkadii Dragomoshchenko</span></a> on Alexei Parshchikov<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Waldrop/Close-Listening/Waldrop-Rosmarie_Close-Listening_conversation_11-05-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rosmarie Waldrop</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Waldrop/Close-Listening/Waldrop-Rosmarie_Close-Listening_reading_11-05-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Waldrop, reading</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/11/bruce-boone-gail-scott-reading-at-small.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bruce Boone &amp; Gail Scott</span></a><br>
at Small Press Traffic<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/11/mel-nichols-catalytic-exteriorization.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mel Nichols&#8217;</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sunday, Nov. 29<br>
@ the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC:<br>
a monster celebration of<br>
<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/#11-23-09"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gerrit Lansing&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=238200"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mina Loy</span></a> is not Myrna Loy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/nov/19/poet-anti-poet-duality-lawrence-writer-jim-mccrary/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jim McCrary</span></a>:<br>
poet, anti-poet<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What <a href="http://mimeomimeo.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-road-scroll.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kerouac&#8217;s scroll</span></a><br>
tells us about his art<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/16/the-best-writing-tips-eve_n_351480.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s</span></a><br>
&#8220;Mind Writing Slogans&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bernstein/talk-80-Langston/Bernstein-Charles_Complete-Recording_Characterization_80-Langton-Street-San-Francisco_01-83.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Bernstein</span></a><br>
talking at 80 Langston Street, 1983,<br>
on characterization<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/18/margaret-atwood-70th"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Margaret Atwood</span></a> at 70<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>75 years<br>
of the <br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/5JuAoc"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Academy of American Poets</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;A Future for Poetry&#8221; <br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/5mkr5k"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marie Bullock</span></a><br>
on the Academy of American Poets<br>
in 1937<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21108"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A portrait of the founder</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/4754"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Maggie Nelson</span></a>: on color<br>
(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The US has SPD,<br>
but Australia&#8217;s<br>
got <a href="http://spunc.com.au/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>SPUNC</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/pages/staff-picks/default.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>SPD staff picks</span></a> for 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Aren&#8217;t the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/22/books-of-the-year-2009"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>best book lists</span></a><br>
coming earlier this year?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Clayton Eshleman does 2<br>
broadcasts with the<br>
Joe Milford Poetry Show<br>
<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joe-milford-show/2009/11/21/joe-milford-hosts-clayton-eshleman"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>here</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joe-milford-show/2009/11/22/joe-milford-hosts-clayton-eshleman"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>here</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Over 140 episodes<br>
of the Joe Milford Poetry Show<br>
can be accessed <a href="http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com/archives.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>here</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>PoemTalk</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>,<br>
the close-reading poetry show<br>
from PennSound &amp; the Poetry Foundation,<br>
now has a <a href="http://www.versspreken.nl/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dutch cousin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dublin in December<br>
means<br>
the <a href="http://www.wurmfest.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wurmfest</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1116/1224258921079.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Neglectorinos</span></a> of Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Susan Schultz<br>
on the <a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2009/11/australia-in-november-anti-travel.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poets of Australia</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A short history of <a href="http://www.thestar.com/living/article/726499--flarf-the-poetry-of-googled-search-terms"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>flarf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>K. Silem Mohammad&#8217;s<br>
&#8220;<a href="http://pastsimple.org/ps7_K._Silem_Mohammadps7_2.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Squirting Ringworm Taco</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/grenier/Eigner-Proof-Corrections.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eigner proof corrections</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sibila.com.br/index.php/sibila-english/856-ou-vont-les-chiens"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Where do the dogs go</span></a><br>
in Baudelaire?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>If only I could read <a href="http://versindaba.co.za/2009/11/24/die-alfabet-volgens-ron-silliman/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Afrikaans</span></a>&#8230;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.pw.org/content/virtual_forum_women_writers"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>She writes</span></a><br>
about<br>
<a href="http://www.shewrites.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>SheWrites.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What is it <a href="http://possumego.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-notes-toward-essay-on-poetry-and_22.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>to imagine a public?</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What would <a href="http://bit.ly/5IHbcn"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jane Austen</span></a> do?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Spell-checking <a href="http://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2009/11/geologys-favorite-fal-de-lals.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hugh MacDiarmid</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://omnidawn.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/poetry-feature-chris-tysh/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chris Tysh</span></a><br>
translating Beckett&#8217;s novel <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Molloy<br>
</i>into verse<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/11/silicon_beach_coral_gables_lit.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Proust</span></a> on Twitter<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20091122_Philip_K__Dick_s_deconstruction_of_madness.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Philip K. Dick,</span></a><br>
deconstructing madness<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hankering for a <a href="http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2009/11/course-texts-anthologies.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>better map</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/11/shakespeare-and-company-mural.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shakespeare &amp; Co&#8217;s</span></a> new mural<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=5976"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Portraiture</span></a> of the artists<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://twitter.com/avary"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Noir tweets</span></a>?<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Pulp Fiction </i>writer<br>
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/24/roger-avary-twitter-tweet-prison"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>twittering from jail</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/arts/21iht-melik21.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The book of omens</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.onedit.net/issue1/anna/anna.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anna</span></a> <a href="http://bit.ly/4wkSQu"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mendelssohn</span></a> (<a href="http://robmack.blogspot.com/2006/07/10-grace-lake-aka-anna-mendelssohn.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Grace</span></a> <a href="http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=1876857005"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lake</span></a>)<br>
has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Playing politics<br>
with the bones of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/world/europe/23iht-camus.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Camus</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The people in <a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091121/NEWS/911210307/-1/NEWSMAP"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stanley Kunitz&#8217;</span></a> house<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-paul-auster22-2009nov22,0,794633.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Auster&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Invisible<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112303734.html?hpid=sec-artsliving"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lost in the funhouse</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/823"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lorrie Moore</span></a>:<br>
&#8220;How to Talk to Your Mother&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The forms of <a href="http://calquezine.blogspot.com/2009/11/between-museum-and-zoo-sebastien-smirou.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sébastien Smirou</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/4527"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Oulipo</span></a> reading list<br>
(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_diaries/plagiarism_high_and_low"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The plagiarism</span></a> of academic co-authorship<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bring back the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/16/borders-waterstones-traditional-booksellers"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>olde style book shoppe</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/20/oxfam-secondhand-booksellers"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Oxfam</span></a> seeks peace<br>
with used bookdealers<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The demise of <a href="http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=10800"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Borders UK</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/21/BUMI1ANVLA.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Nook</span></a> sells out<br>
its Christmas stock<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235996/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Black Friday</span></a> is for suckers<br>
(&amp; so are e-readers, it says here)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>McClatchy papers<br>
launch editions for <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004044841"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Kindle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/King-t.html?nl=books&amp;emc=booksupdateema1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stephen King on Raymond Carver</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An &#8220;<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/22/RVQL1AH8R4.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>astonishingly complete</span></a>&#8221; biography<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/22/RVNJ1AM4QM.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carver didn&#8217;t fight Lish</span></a> as vigorously as he should have&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Saving <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1119/1224259113180.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Leopold Bloom&#8217;s soap shop</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reading <a href="http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2009/11/kay-ryan-niagra-river.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kay Ryan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-orhan-pamuk22-2009nov22,0,4473835.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Orhan Pamuk&#8217;s</span></a> LA<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.chbooks.com/news/code-x-now-available-new-online-edition"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Code X</span></a></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><br>
transforms your PC<br>
into a sound-poem machine<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2009/11/17/hot-sauce/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jon Cotner &amp; Andy Fitch&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Conversations over Stolen Food<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=525853&amp;publicationSubCategoryId=79"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Crowns &amp; Oranges:</span></a><br>
Works by Young Philippine Poets<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-2009/spell"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alice Jones</span></a><br>
won the first annual<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Narrative </i>poetry contest<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joyce Kilmer talks with<br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/7xEHWc"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edwin Arlington Robinson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thesilvertongueonline.com/?p=3109"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wilco&#8217;s haiku contest</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>50 years of <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-706-East-Bay-Literary-Examiner~y2009m11d17-The-Beats-celebrate-the-50th-anniversary-of-BEATITUDE"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Beatitude</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091122/A_LIFE/911220320#STS=g2d8qp0i.1bi7"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry &amp; combat</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2 poets for the birds &#8211;<br>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/18/simon-armitage-tim-dee-bird-poems"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Simon Armitage</span></a><br>
<a href="http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15084-2/bright-wings"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Billy Collins</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bigother.com/2009/11/02/literary-primes-aarp-division/#comment-325"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literary primes</span></a> &#8211; AARP Division<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://american-poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/louis_zukofsky_and_the_objectified_poem_part_2"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Louis Zukofsky</span></a> &amp; the objectified poem<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/blair"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky&#8217;s</span></a> <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Memories of the Future<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/11/23/091123fi_fiction_shepard"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Highway 74</span></a> revisited<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/11/best-response.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Getting a response</span></a> to your poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/11/17/winners-of-the-2009-governor-general-s-literary-awards-announced.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Governor General&#8217;s</span></a> Awards for 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>60 years of <a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/nba77fictionwinners.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>National Book Award</span></a><br>
fiction winners<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The NBA&#8217;s <a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2009_p_waldrop.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Keith Waldrop</span></a> page<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A conflict of interest<br>
in the <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/national-book-awards-conflict-of-interest-question-arises-in-young-readers-category/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>National Book Awards</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The &#8220;<a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/17/vanity_book_awards/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>National Best Book Awards</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="//www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5giiiFf35ZXjTiXG8ALiL6yMcoVLgD9C13FGG3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Su Tong</span></a> wins Man Asia<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>There goes the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/18/andrew-motion-chair-booker-prize"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Man Booker</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;We&#8217;re legit,&#8221;<br>
<a href="http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/04/one-more-reason-not-to-trust-reader-reviews/#comment-193167"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>ReaderSpoils</span></a> protests<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/21/zadie-smith-essay-guardian-review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Zadie Smith:</span></a><br>
the essay has as much art as fiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Syllabus for a class on<br>
<a href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~engl/CourseDescriptions/syllabi/Eng412-200901Witte.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>literary editing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/tatiana-shcherbina/stalin-%E2%80%93-hero-for-our-time"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stalin, Putin &amp; the poets</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112002352_pf.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Gallaher&#8217;s</span></a><br>
&#8220;Watermelon in the Afternoon&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gallaher on Unterecker on <a href="http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2009/11/unterecker-on-ashbery.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ashbery</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/16/poem-of-the-week-douglas-skrief"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Douglas Skrief</span></a>, stone poet<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091122/jsp/calcutta/story_11762433.jsp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Longley</span></a> in Calcutta<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Can <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/11/can-nick-cave-rival-perennial-bad-sex-award-nominee-philip-roth.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nick Cave</span></a><br>
beat the modern Bulwer-Lytton<br>
for the &#8220;bad sex&#8221; award?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(It&#8217;s not just the sex that&#8217;s bad<br>
in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23430"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Humbling</span></a></i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The bad sex &#8220;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/18/bad-sex-awards-roth"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>shortlist</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>So where is the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/19/bad-sex-award-good-sex-fiction"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>good sex</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Can you name the last 3<br>
<a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/quick-can-you-name-the-last-3-national-book-award-winners/?hp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>National Book Award</span></a> novels?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A poetry tour of <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/gallery/walking-tours/dc/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Washington, DC</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp; of <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/gallery/walking-tours/chicago/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chicago</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://jamarattigan.livejournal.com/343910.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Poet&#8217;s Cookbook</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Academe &amp; the <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Academethe-Decline-of/49120/?sid=cr&amp;utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>decline of news media</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Needed: a <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/We-Need-Philosophy-of/49119/?sid=cr&amp;utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>philosophy of journalism</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Can <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/University-Based-Reporting/49113/?sid=cr&amp;utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>university-based reporting</span></a><br>
keep journalism alive?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/11/24/MNP11AEM9D.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The San Francisco Panorama</span></a>:</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><br>
a new newspaper<br>
that costs $16<br>
&amp; plans to print<br>
just one issue<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Microsoft offers to <br>
<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>rescue Murdoch&#8217;s group</span></a><br>
from Google Search<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Can <a href="http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/11/is_murdochs_bid_to_join_bing_and_ditch_google_doomed.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Murdoch</span></a> pull this off?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>NaNoWriMo</span></a> ends soon<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>In praise of <a href="http://remarksinaminorkey.blogspot.com/2009/11/young-poets-please-read-everything.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>scattershot reading</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.themontserratreview.com/bookreviews/dinnerDate.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Judith Robinson&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Dinner Date<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nabokov, &#8220;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111803776_pf.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>reduced to notes</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/22/original-of-laura-vladimir-nabokov"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>flashes of brilliance</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/nov/20/nabokov-reif-larsen-kiran-desai"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A debate</span></a> over its publication<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/nabokovrsquos-laura-manuscript-up-for-auction-1821468.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Laura </span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;font-style:normal'>manuscript</span></a></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'> is up for sale<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20091122_Writings_left_behind_by_Vonnegut.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vonnegut&#8217;s</span></a> leftovers<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ronslate.com/blame_novel_michelle_huneven_sarah_crichton_books_farrar_straus_and_giroux"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michelle Huneven&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Blame<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/arts/20iht-lon20.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Auden &amp; the &#8220;rent boy&#8221;</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>When experts educate,<br>
<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1330827"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>what do their metaphors say</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2009/11/dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-and-john-keats.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dr. Jekyll &amp; Mr. Keats</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;It might as well have <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/19/DDHJ1AMAC3.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>cooties</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/6130/deleuze-and-guattari-aesthetics-and-politics"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Deleuze &amp; Guattari:<br>
Aesthetics &amp; Politics</span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Deleuzean literary machines<br>
of <a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/6134/machinic-modernism-deleuzean-literary-machines-woolf-lawrence-and-joyce"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Woolf, Lawrence &amp; Joyce</span></a><br>
(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reading <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2009/11/girldrive_author_nona_willis_aronowitz_visits_st_louis_this_weekend_to_plug_book_at_left_bank.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>GirlDrive</span></a> </i>in St. Louis<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4167"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eric Gans&#8217;</span></a> &#8220;generative anthropology&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>These are the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/nov/22/sinai-camping-silence"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>sounds of silence</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/6138/morning-star-surrealism-marxism-anarchism-situationism-utopia"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Löwy&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Morningstar:<br>
Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism,<br>
Situationism, Utopia<br>
</i>(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/arts-education/willingham-six-practical-reaso.html?hpid=news-col-blog"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>6 practical reasons</span></a><br>
for arts education<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The handmade books<br>
of <a href="http://www.amaustin.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alice Austin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2009/11/utopian-miami-beach.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mark Scroggins</span></a><br>
on <a href="http://www.wolfsonian.org/exhibitions/upcoming/index.britishprints.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>modernist prints</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/nov/24/sex-in-art-matisse-picasso"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The modernist difference</span></a><br>
can been seen in the sex<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/collection-mocas-first-thirty-years.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>MoCA</span></a> at 30<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/21/van-gogh-complete-letters-review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Van Gogh&#8217;s</span></a> letters<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/arts/21iht-conway.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Real vs. seeming</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2009/11/augmented-reality.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Augmenting the real</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/artist-to-have-an-epileptic-fit-live-on-stage-1824122.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Epilepsy</span></a> as an art form?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/11/18/MN721AM4LA.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>UC museum</span></a><br>
cancels its new building<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/6067/andy-warhol-october-files"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Andy Warhol</span></a>:</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>October</i> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Files<br>
</i>(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The dark side of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/22/other-side-of-francis-bacon"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Francis Bacon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>When in <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/travel/22journeys.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marfa</span></a>&#8230;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/books/24book.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Satchmo</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with Fanfarlo&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/Brainy-entertaining-rock-from-Fanfarlo-70409637.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Simon Balthazar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/Um6p4"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bob Dylan</span></a>:<br>
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