Happy 50th Birthday
Helvetica!
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The scourge of Arial
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The Poetry Foundation
&
Americans for the Arts
find themselves poorer
by $100 million
(not a typo)
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Terry Eagleton
does
Monty Python,
this time for real
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The best-selling books of poetry
this past February
from Small Press Distribution
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Origin
is back
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Dana Gioia,
a Republican,
finds himself facing the Dems
now in congress
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LibraryThing
you make my heart sing
you make everything
groovy
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Most of my first drafts are done by pen.
Actually,
unless the paper in the notebook
proves too porous,
it’s been the same pen
for over 25 years,
a Waterman I bought
in the stationery store
that used to be next to Zabar’s
on the
of
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Merger looming
for Borders &B&N?
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”gay bookstore”
is on the brink
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The archive broker
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Tom Christensen’s
glossary
of publishing terms
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Through the Russian
looking glass
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20 percent of American
can’t read
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Baumol’s cost-disease
and the future of art
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The “most successful”
living artist
is Damien Hirst
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Steve Reich:
”The orchestra is a museum”
(MP3 files
from the New York Times)
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Two shows I’d love to see
in San Francisco
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Saving
the Tugendhat house
maybe
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