The most expensive reading ticket
I’ve heard of in some time
promises to be a bargain.
$60 Canadian
gets you a book-length reading
of The Men
by Lisa Robertson,
a three-course dinner
& all male fashion show
Friday, July 7, in
as part of
The Scream
literary festival
& for $5 more
you get the book too.
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Soft Skull Press is bringing out a new edition of Eunoia.
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I’ve been getting thank you notes
for shutting down
the comments stream.
But there has also been a drop-off
in the number of visits per day.
Personally, I miss the serious comments
that were on topic.
But toward the end,
that had declined to no more than
ten percent of the comments overall.
So if & when I reopen that feature
it will be after I have figured out
some way to ensure
that comments stay focused.
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There will be a memorial event for
William Talcott
at Moe’s Books in
Saturday, July 8
at 7:30 pm
§
One of the great presses
from the 1960s onward
finally has its own web site:
Check out those early journals
& those up-to-the-moment books
§
Sunday’s NY Times Book Review
looks at the collected poems
of Ishmael Reed.
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The best piece I’ve read lately
on Donald Hall
is in the Harvard Crimson
