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<p class=MsoNormal>Robert Parker is not the sort of writer I would typically think to memorialize here. In spite of his invocation of the 16<sup>th</sup> century poet for the name of his iconic character Spenser, there was not a lot that Spenser had to do with poetry. Parker&#8217;s prose has none of the ear for spoken English that one associates, say, with Elmore Leonard at his best (i.e., the Detroit period), nor for the pure pleasures of syntax that one recognizes in Stephen King. In making his surname-only primary character a tough guy with feelings, complete with a therapist girlfriend &amp; a penchant for fine cooking, Parker demonstrates that he understands his audience as a market &amp; understands it fairly well. Spenser's sidekick Hawk is an Enkiddu surrogate right out of Queequeg by way of Tonto &amp; is interesting mostly as a stepping stone toward the more violent &amp; psychotic Mouse created by Walter Mosley to accompany Easy Rawlins.&#185; <span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'>Still, I went through my Robert Parker period like a lot of other readers, one that may have gone on a lot longer than it otherwise might have because I read Parker&#8217;s best book, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://bullets-and-beer.com/Looking.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Looking for Rachel Wallace</span></a>, </i>fairly early on. It took me a dozen novels at least to realize that I wasn&#8217;t going to find another. Rachel Wallace is a lesbian feminist who needs protection but isn&#8217;t thrilled to get it from the testosterone-poisoned Spenser. She fires him only to need rescuing anyway, which he does in his usual way of wading into the dark parts of the story just to stir things up so he can begin to chase whatever squirms out into the light of day. There is a self-conscious clumsiness at the heart of Spenser&#8217;s method, the antithesis of the detective who solves crimes through subtle analysis. Wallace is constantly challenging Spenser on his brutish methods &amp; he responds with the trademark wisecracks, but in the process Parker creates a novel that is a wonderful interrogation of the presumptions underpinning the crime story genre, and that literally asks all the questions. In the patented Spenser style that was already largely set when the novel came out in 1980, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Rachel Wallace</i> describes 18 meals in its 31 chapters, starting with lobster, ending with red beans &amp; rice, and rescues the damsel via an act of violence. Parker clearly sides with his genre, while giving readers a vision of the much larger picture. If you haven&#8217;t read it, you owe it to yourself to do so. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%'>&#185; When they brought Spenser <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>to TV in 1985, the producers tried to soften Hawk just by having the regal Avery Brooks play the role. Like the late Robert Urich, who portrayed Spenser, the opera-singing Brooks never quite fit his role. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4212106964_d0d58b196e_o.jpg"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border="0" height="506" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/mDUHaU7HIJRm3x2jVr2mICTu-s0cT1TiT7BpLOO8tICay1OaFynvB1XuoXBG04c3bQ-7Q7GbwhQg7ShNJ2-VUs0O_0MHjeOITSzT1LB2DYT70Yw%3Ds0-d" width="390"></span></a><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/feature-article-that-all-of-us-may.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marianne Moore</span></a>:<br> the gate-keeper<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://sibila.com.br/index.php/newsibyl/850-lorine-niedecker-the-anonymous-gender-class-genre-and-resistances"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Lorine Niedecker</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://octopusdream.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/quick-one-on-womens-innovative-writing/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gender, poetry, innovation</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/2009/12/24/world/asia/24china.html?_r=1&amp;ref=global-home"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chinese poet</span></a> goes on <a href="http://www.theworld.org/2009/12/23/chinese-dissident-on-trial-for-subversion/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>trial</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.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/world/asia/25china.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>11 years</span></a> for advocating freedom of speech<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'>Poems of <a href="http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/4014/prmID/1502"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Liu Xiaobo</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'>PEN&#8217;s <a href="http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3029/prmID/172"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Liu Xiaobo</span></a> resource page<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.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1527"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Freedom of expression</span></a> in China<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.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1893"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Take action NOW</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:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Talking with <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/DickHigginsInterview"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Dick Higgins</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'>Remembering <a href="http://coalmountain.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/dennis-brutus-1924-2009/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dennis Brutus</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 <a href="http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/featured-poet-rebecca-loudon.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rebecca Loudon</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'>John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews 2 books<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>by <a href="http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/2-books-by-rebecca-loudon.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Loudon</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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/with-deer-by-aase-berg-trans-by_21.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Loudon</span></a> reviews Goransson&#8217;s Berg<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'>Gabriel Lovatt on <a href="http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/with-deer-by-aase-berg-trans-by.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Aase Berg</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/dec/24/le-guin-authors-guild-deal"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Le Guin</span></a> quits Authors Guild<br> over Google deal<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'>Camille Martin<br> on <a href="http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/g-is-for-genre-maxine-chernoffs-todorov/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Maxine Chernoff&#8217;s</span></a> Todorov<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://baustralia.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/renee-gladman-reading-first-sleep-from-her-book-juice/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Renee Gladman</span></a>, reading<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.arras.net/fscIII/wp-content/uploads/2009/la_pdfs/perkoff_love.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stuart Z. Perkoff</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Love is the Silence<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'>A collection of rare LA poetry publications<br> (<a href="http://www.arras.net/fscIII/?p=681"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Part 1</span></a>) (<a href="http://www.arras.net/fscIII/?p=744"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Part 2</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.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/12/22/e_book_in_hand_not_necessarily_the_book_you_want_to_read/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How to kill the e-book</span></a> --<br> let people try to use them<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'>Hackers crack <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/23/amazon_kindle_hacked/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kindle &#169; protection</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.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/17/ebook-sales-skyrocket-boo_n_396002.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>e-book sales skyrocket</span></a>,<br> book sales up generally<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'>Here come the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122701973.html?hpid=topnews"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>vooks</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.pw.org/content/digital_digest_rise_ebook_accelerates"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>80% of publishers concede</span></a><br> that e-books should be cheaper<br> than hard copy<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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/your-wilderness-mine-by-david-highsmith.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Highsmith&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Your Wilderness &amp; Mine<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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/OTG_1975_05_14"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kenward Elmslie</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'>Adam Schatz on <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n01/adam-shatz/wanting-to-be-something-else"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Orhan Pamuk</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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/landscapes-of-dissent-guerilla-poetry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jules Boykoff &amp; Kaia Sand&#8217;s</span></a> <br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Landscapes of Dissent:<br> Guerilla Poetry &amp; Public Space<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/2009/12/25/opinion/25davis.html?_r=2&amp;hp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lydia Davis</span></a><br> on the tragedy of Christmas<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'>Alberto Manguel&#8217;s<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/7607/library-night"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Library at Night</span></a><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://mimeomimeo.blogspot.com/2009/12/imitation-is-not-sincerest-form-of.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Spicer&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Book of Magazine Verse:<br> </i>imitation not intended as flattery<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://baustralia.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/post-for-brad-flis-mp3-searcher/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brad Flis</span></a> reads<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://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-daisy-fried.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Daisy Fried</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://serifofnottingham.blogspot.com/2009/12/cage-match-of-canadian-poetry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cage match of Canadian poetry</span></a>:<br> everybody loses<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/dec/22/when-authors-attack"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>When authors attack reviews</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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/housecat-kung-fu-by-geoffrey-gatza.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Geoffrey Gatza&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Housecat Kung Fu:<br> Strange Poems for Wild Children<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:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/conversation-with-don-share.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Don Share</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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/collapsible-poetics-theater-by-rodrigo.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rodrigo Toscano&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Collapsible Poetics Theater<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'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-stephen-burt.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stephen Burt</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.archive.org/details/AM_1974_02_03"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gertrude Stein</span></a> 100<sup>th</sup> birthday concert (1974)<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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/analfabeto-alphabet-by-ellen-baxt.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ellen Baxt&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Analfabeto / An Alphabet<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://baustralia.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/albert-mobilio-reads-from-the-geographics/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Albert Mobilio</span></a> reads<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://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-catherine-daly.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Catherine Daly</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;<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://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/#12-23-09"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Charles Reznikoff</span></a> reads &#8220;<a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Reznikoff/Holocaust_1975/Reznikoff-Charles_14_Children_Holocaust_12-21-75_NYC.mp3"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Children</span></a>&#8221;</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><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.archive.org/details/CarlRakosiReading"><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carl Rakosi</span></a> reading, 1971<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'>Tom Hibbard on <a href="http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/choose-selected-poems-by-michael.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Rothenberg</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 <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-brian-joseph-davis.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brian Joseph Davis</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 <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-steven-collis.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Steven Collis</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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/dick-of-dead-by-rachel-loden.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dick of the Dead</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'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-ron-silliman.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>me</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://slought.org/content/11442/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literature &amp; philosophy as a way of life</span></a><br> Philadelphia, Dec. 29<br> (100 yards from the MLA Offsite)<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/carol-muskedukes/soldier-to-poet-an-exchan_b_396074.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Soldier to poet:</span></a><br> an exchange<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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/identity-theft-by-catherine-daly.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Catherine Daly&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Identity Theft<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/booksblog/2009/dec/17/poster-poems-christmas-poetry"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Christmas</span></a> poems<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.archive.org/details/BurroughsPressConf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William Burroughs</span></a> press conference<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'>Editing <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/12/editing-david-foster-wallace.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Foster Wallace</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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-and-cultural-studies-reader-eds.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry &amp; Cultural Studies</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'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-michael-bryson.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Bryson</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.pw.org/content/fifty_most_inspiring_authors_world"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>50 of the &#8220;most inspiring&#8221; writers</span></a><br> in the world<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.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091219302931"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Soyinka, Achebe</span></a> make list<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://danpritch.blogspot.com/2009/12/hysterical-but-nice.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Daniel Pritchard</span></a><br> sings the Quietist anthem: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Standards!<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'>Pride &amp; Prejudice<br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>in <a href="http://bookshop.livejournal.com/1010612.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>emoticons</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.pw.org/content/tough_transition_triquarterly"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>TriQuarterly&#8217;s</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>tough transition<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/written_image_somewhere_far_habit"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Artists &amp; quietists</span></a> in collaboration<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/dec/23/literary-fingerprinting-obvious"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literary fingerprinting</span></a> reveals the obvious<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.ibj.com/vonnegut-kids-back-local-memorial-library/PARAMS/article/15373"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vonnegut</span></a> kids back memorial library<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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/wow-wow-wow-wow-by-kevin-killian.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kevin Killian&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Wow Wow Wow Wow<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.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20091227_Finding_the_father_within.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sherman Alexie&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>War Dances</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'>China gets its first<br> <a href="http://www.pw.org/content/lowresidency_mfa_comes_china"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>low-res MFA</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://americanfiction.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/finger-flexion-redux/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Prophylactic</span></a>&#8221; quotes<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://finance.yahoo.com/news/Court-bans-sale-of-Word-apf-2019805011.html?x=0&amp;.v=5"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Microsoft</span></a> loses right <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/22/microsoft-loses-patent-appeal-word-and-office-to-be-barred-from/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>to sell Word</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;, voila, <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222100033&amp;subSection=News"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>rewrites</span></a> the offending code!<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'>Joseph Donahue&#8217;s<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/terra-lucida-by-joseph-donahue.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Terra Lucida</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'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/17/second-thought-rewriting-al-kennedy"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>First thought, worst thought</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 weather report<br> via <a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/12/snow-storm-by-tu.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tu Fu &amp; Kenneth Rexroth</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/2009/12/happy-hooverized-xmas-greetings-from.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hooverized</span></a> Christmas greetings<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.archive.org/details/MC_1991_05_31"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bernard Heidsieck</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'>Sobin&#8217;s <a href="http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/brittle-age-and-returning-upland-by.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Char</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/bestsellers/poetry/poetry-bestsellers-2000-to-2009.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>SPD&#8217;s 50 best-selling poetry books</span></a><br> for the past decade<o:p></o:p></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'>I&#8217;m more honored that <br> <a href="http://otherroom.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>The Other Room</span></a><br> would think to include me<br> in a <a href="http://otherroom.org/2009/12/21/guardian-reveals-top-ten-poetry-of-the-noughties/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>prank like this</span></a><br> than I would have been<br> had this story been true<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 most viewed blog notes on Harriet<br> &amp; articles on the <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/12/dear-readers/#more-6974"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry Foundation website</span></a><br> in 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://tony-trehy.blogspot.com/2009/12/review-of-year-2009.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tony Trehy&#8217;s</span></a> best of everything 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'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/23/decade-books-jk-rowling"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Best selling authors</span></a> of the decade<br> in the United Kingdom<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.abebooks.com/books/2000-2009-noughty-reviews-fiction-nonfiction/collectible-noughties.shtml?cm_mmc=nl-_-nl-_-h00-cbodecJ-_-01cta"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Most collectible books</span></a> of the noughties<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://thesecondpass.com/?p=4034"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Books we&#8217;ll still be reading</span></a> in 2110<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://bit.ly/6bfKoz"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>10 best books</span></a> that are years<br> (also silliest list)<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'>Remembering <a href="http://tetetotete.blogspot.com/2009/12/for-emma-forever-ago.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Emma Bee Bernstein</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://thefbomb.org/2009/12/required-reading-girldrive/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Required reading</span></a>: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>GirlDrive<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://women.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/12/26/searching-for-feminism-on-americas-roads/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nona Willis Aronowitz</span></a>:<br> Do we still need the word <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>feminism</i>?<br> </span><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.mediabistro.com/galleycat/lit_crit/party_with_swimsuit_models_and_support_the_paris_review_146551.asp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paris Review&#8217;s</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><br> party invite<br> includes an answer to Nona&#8217;s question<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://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/have-good-one-by-anselm-berrigan.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anselm Berrigan&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Have a Good One<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/2009/12/24/arts/24singer.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Loren Singer</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'>The <a href="http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/feature-article-on-philippines-2009.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2009 Philippine National Artists Awards</span></a> controversy<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://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704240504574585981912442384.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>tragedy of happiness</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'>Slide shows that sell books<br> <a href="http://www.interbirthbooks.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>based on their covers</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 <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-lydon/sir-andrew-motion-poetry_b_396926.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Andrew Motion</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.foliomag.com/2009/dead-print-magazine-tally-tapers"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Print magazine death toll</span></a> tapers off in &#8216;09<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.cjr.org/the_kicker/a_long_slow_drawnout_death_for.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why magazines might not die</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'>Learn to speak <a href="http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2009/12/geek-speak-learn-navi-the-alien-language-of-avatar.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Na&#8217;vi</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/7714/sublime-object-ideology"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Slavoj Žižek:</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Sublime Object of Ideology<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://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/12/28/masters_keep_knowledge_of_crafts_alive_with_support_from_state/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Keeping the knowledge of arts alive</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;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Talking with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20fob-domains-t.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Jenny Holzer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>A <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/12/16/magazine/20091220-domains-slideshow_index.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Holzer slide show</span></a><br> with none of her 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'>Dominique Nabokov<br> on <a href="http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/298876613/slide-show-dominique-nabokov-on-robert-frank"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Frank&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Americans</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><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://a.aaaarg.org/text/7809/photography"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Susan Sontag</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>On Photography<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://www.thenation.com/doc/20100111/schwabsky"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Barry Schwabsky</span></a><br> on the death of Polaroid<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'>Jack Hirschman talks with <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CageinLA"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Cage</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.archive.org/details/CageFeldmanInConversation"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cage &amp; Morton Feldman</span></a> in conversation<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'>Charles Amirkhanian talks with <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/BraxtonSOM"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anthony Braxton</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/7831/foundations-indian-musicology"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pradip Kumar Sengupta</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Foundations of Indian Musicology<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://www.thenation.com/doc/20100111/yaffe"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Misterioso</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://bit.ly/7TttoX"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Other Minds Archive</span></a> is a great resource<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://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/scraps-messenger.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tom Clark</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Messenger<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://blogs.nybooks.com/post/297481234/cate-blanchett-and-blanche-dubois"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cate Blanchett</span></a> &amp; Blanche Dubois<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.wiltons.org.uk/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wilton&#8217;s Music Hall</span></a><br> turns <a href="http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/a-london-theater-celebrates-150-years/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>150</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://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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San Francisco, Dec. 16<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>

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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://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>

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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.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>

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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://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>

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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://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>

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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://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>

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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://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>

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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.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>

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