March is Small Press Month
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According to the Wall Street Journal,
The LA Times Book Review
is about to be toast
with the Washington Post,
SF Chronicle,
Chicago Tribune
&
San Diego Union-Tribune
all considering doing likewise
to their book review sections
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The new Dark Ages:
15
are set to close
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A different approach
in
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The oldest bookstore in
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The race for a Pulitzer
has begun
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for Bill Corbett
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is preparing
for its very first bookfest
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A profile of
Roger Bonair-Agard
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Poetry Day
in
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A reason for publishers
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Kathryn Starbuck,
the widow of George,
has begun writing poetry
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Granta’s list
of the top new
American writers
under 40
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"His work was enormously groundbreaking
in terms of typography,
he was using tons of odd punctuation
and strange spacing…"
(Will somebody PUH-LEASE
buy Tree Swenson
a book by e.e. cummings?)
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“Like Yeats and Lowell before him…”
(you just know
it’s going to be all downhill
from there)
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“He rebelled quietly…”
(to say the least)
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“The Perfect Form”
(and other
modes of hyperbole)
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Mutanabi Street
where booksellers
once thrived
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The decline & closure
of bookstores
and publishers
is not just
a
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Alvin Curran
on
Steve Lacy
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The trouble with some new Pollocks
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Hanging
with Brice Marden
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Michael Kimmelman
moves to Europe
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An appreciation of
John Simon
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Jazz man or terrorist?
