Talking with John Tranter
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Alli Warren & Suzanne Stein:
“A Poetics”
On ON:Contemporary Practice 2,
the event
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Nicole Brossard: Essays on Her Works
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Margaret Atwood & the end of the world
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Who are today’s innovative poets?
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Christian Bök & ALICE
read Sunset Debris
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The “Feminaissance” is upon us
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Some new poems by Jennifer Bartlett
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Charles Bernstein in Chicago
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A profile of Albert Huffstickler
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Maxine Chernoff:
“Embedded in the Language”
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Borges’ lost translations
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Humphrey Davies in Cairo
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The Best Translated Book Awards:
the poetry finalists
& for fiction
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Penguin’s series
of “new African writers”
is anything but new
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Georgelle Hirliman,
the Writer in the Window,
has died
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NY Times obit for Lucille Clifton
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Kenneth Rexroth’s columns
for the San Francisco Examiner
50 years to the day
of their original publication
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Exiled Bangladesh author
gets “last” Indian visa
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Zadie Smith’s rules for writers
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Just:
7 contributors, 100 words
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Dolly Freed & Radiohead Journalism
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Talking with Shauna Singh Baldwin
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2 anthologies
with completely different
approaches to the world
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Books, Inc.’s formula for success
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A new indie bookshop
pops up in Toronto
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Disintermediating writing
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The most exciting time ever
to be a writer?
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SF celebrates book- binding
(with a terrific gallery of images)
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Great Philip K. Dick covers
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Typewriter sculpture robot woman
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iPad e-book prices
may be lower than expected
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Who’s afraid of digital book piracy?
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Print on demand ≠ instant bookstore
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Post-it notes like leaves of grass
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Criticism is not dying
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The cartographer’s p.o.v.
Nowhere Mag,
please listen….
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Writers helping writers. Or not.
“Lazlo Toth” did it better
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The home of the Ancient Mariner
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Literary classics that
ought to be video games
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James Joyce,
anticipating the cell phone,
1922
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Bibliophile porn
(I plead guilty!)
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Aaron Kunin’s The Mandarin
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Is Paul Guest invalid?
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Wallace Stevens & the dharma
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Laredo’s library to fill void
with no bookstores left
within 150 miles
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Nation’s libraries:
more use, less funding
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WSU Vancouver
takes on
Richard Brautigan’s
library of 400 unpublished books
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Writing that ought to offend you
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John Martone on squirrels
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Wilfred Owen in hell
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1984:
the Brazilian puppet show
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The world’s hardest writers
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Dr. Jeckyll & Ms. Highsmith
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Assassination fantasy poem
lands white supremacist in jail
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Visiting Slaughterhouse Five
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No museum
for Kipling’s Mumbai home
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Boston branch libraries at risk
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A linguistics masters in
Language & cultural diversity
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$9M for the librarian’s memoir
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Byron archive goes to Drew U.
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At the Brontë Parsonage Museum
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How the Irish (& Welsh) invented love
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Twinkling clichés by Samuel Menashe
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The big cringe:
Iris Murdoch’s teen diaries
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Life with the Brownings
goes onstage
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Socialist books in the Obama White House?
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David Ignatius on Don DeLillo
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The stories of von Kleist
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A ghost story from Lafcadio Hearn
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Poets & Writers awards
for 2010
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Did Rowling plagiarize Potter?
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Thomas Lynch’s “heart of hearts”
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Sylvia Plath + Gary Snyder = D.A. Powell?
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Should Salinger have been allowed to retire?
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Separated at birth?
Salinger & Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac in polite society
& Lenny Bruce on Fox News??
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A found review of
Peter O’Leary’s Benedicite
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5 questions for
Nona Willis Aronowitz
Laura Hinton
on the strangeness of GirlDrive
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Antecedents
to Jeff Wall’s The Mantid
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Talking with Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch
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The Birth of a Nation at 95
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Roger Ebert now
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Responding to Mein Kampf
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For its new wing,
the MFA rolls out a masterpiece
(check out the video)
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Behind the scenes at Classical Comics
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The sculptures of Viola Frey
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Thiebaud’s humor
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David Levine:
an audio portrait
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Before she was Patti Smith
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Gordon Lightfoot is not dead
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Doug Fieger has died
Sherman Alexie’s “Ode to My Sharona”
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Derrida’s post-deconstructive realism
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Bernard-Henri Lévy
caught quoting fiction philosopher
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The 7 Americas of Facebook
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