Showing posts with label Passings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passings. Show all posts

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Talking with
Christian Bök

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Charles Simic
is the new
poet laureate
of the
United States

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Digital lit
from a non-avant
perspective

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13 ways
of looking at
an electronic blackbird

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Interviewing
Douglas Brinkley
about
Jack Kerouac

Brinkley’s edition of
Kerouac’s road novels
leaves out
Visions of Cody
&
This Railroad Earth

Unrolling the scroll
(& check out the other
YouTube
selections of Kerouac,
especially this)

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Over 1,000 pages
by or about
John Tranter:
here,
here
& here

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Talking with Dodie Bellamy
about inhabiting
Kathy Acker

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A profile of
Victor Segalen

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Bookslut
reviews
The City Visible

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Poetry vs. Parnassus
(may require subscription)

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Black sci-fi

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The New Writings Ventures
shortlists
includes a performance poet
from
Bangladesh

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Recording of an interview
with Martín Espada

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Russell Baker
on the end of
newspapers

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Newsroom
of the future?

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The latest
save the newspaper
book review

piece

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Sven Birkerts
on why blogging
won’t save
literary culture

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A new model
for a university press

Plus more
on the Ithaka Report
on university publishing
for a digital age

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Administrative shenanigans
put New College
at risk

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A book series
focused on
Native American poets

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Athol Fugard
in exile

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Vernon Reid
on
Sekou Sundiata

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The memoirs of
Wole Soyinka

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Remembering
Abdullah Hamud Humran

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Trakl’s
Song of Kaspar Hauser

& Scott Horton on
translating Trakl

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JK Rowling:
what’s next

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Harry Potter
& the rest of the book business

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Can laser printers
cause cancer?

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“The Great Curmudgeon

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The “world’s worst poet

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The “lost poems”
of Joe DiMaggio

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Phillip Lopate:
Adapting fiction to film

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Andreas Huyssen
on the secret of
Günter Grass

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Robert Pinsky
on
Wislawa Szymborska

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Used books
are a
buyer’s market

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The NEA
gets a new
literature director

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There’s no quietude
like Irish Quietude
unless it’s
Scotch

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As distinct from the
”Raunchy, provocative poetry
forged amid the
sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll era”
of
New Zealand’s boomer poets

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Poets & Writers
calendar of grant deadlines

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At Antioch,
the president resigns
& calls for an independent board

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The First Word

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The role of culture
in American history

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Priming the unconscious

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Literacy & life expectancy

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Join the fight
to save the Barnes

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Guggie director Lisa Dennison
going to the dark side

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Schjeldahl’s Courbet

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More on the suicides
of Theresa Duncan
& Jeremy Blake

Wednesday, August 01, 2007


Verushka & David Hemmings in Blow-Up, 1966


Michelangelo Antonioni

1912 2007

Monday, July 30, 2007

Sunday, July 29, 2007

For sale:
An “Objectivists” Anthology
(buy it now: $1399)

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Katherine Hayles
on the future
of paper

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Adios to the academic monograph?

University Publishing
in a
Digital Age
(PDF)

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Why publishers
pass on
masterpieces

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Cell phone
comic book

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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore
piece
comes from
Monterey, California

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“Bookstore Barcaloungers”
are disappearing

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Book tours
of corporate offices

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Changes in the offing
at the
Big NYPL

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Felix “NjonjonjoKatsoka,
a
Malawi poet,
thinking through verse
in books & electronic media.

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Better late than never:
LA Times obit
for Sekou Sundiata

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A tribute to
Len Roberts

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Yves Bonnefoy
in
Melbourne
& song

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Talking with
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The Columbia Anthology
of Modern Japanese Literature,
Vol. 2

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Translating
Zbignew Herbert

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A portrait of
Tamar Yoseloff

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Culling your books

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An Argentine novel
of Emily Dickinson

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5 School of Quietude
nature poets
in 6 paragraphs & 389 words

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Montana Poetry Day
in
New Zealand

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An anthology of literature
in “non-standard”
English

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Last of the
Cromarty fisher
dialect

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A profile of
Darren Henry,
Guyanese poet

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Parking Day
is coming

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The old question
of which version
is “real”
gets more complicated
with respect to
Bob Dylan

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Junie B.
& the language police

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Reading bedtime stories
can be hard

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Still more
on the plight of
book reviewers

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The NuPoet Collective
of
Saginaw, MI

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Summer reading,
Toronto style

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Analyzing
Bush’s speech
at the Charleston AFB
Charleston, SC

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Firing
Ward Churchill

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As Yogi Berra
said of the
Barnes Foundation . . .

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Monda’s mondo

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Architectural
basket cases

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A show for
Anthony Caro

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A Belgian couple
funds a new
center for visual arts
in Beijing

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Ricardo Favela
has died

Saturday, July 28, 2007




Darrell Grayson

1961-2007

Executed by the State of Alabama

Tried by an all-white jury

Defended by a lawyer
with no experience
in criminal trials

The state never tested
existing DNA evidence

He became a poet in prison

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Elizabeth Bishop
talking with
Susan Howe
(MP3)

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Other shows
from Susan Howe’s
WBAI series
(includes shows with
F.T. Prince, Charles Reznikoff,
Bernadette Mayer, Barbara Guest)

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Rodger Kamenetz
on the
genius of
David Shapiro

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Natasha Trethewey
on NPR’s Fresh Air

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An interview
with Dmitri Prigov
(and some poems)

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What David Bromige
& Borat
have in common

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Richard Denner’s
wandering ways

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Dorothy Parker
in © hell

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Tales of
The Chelsea Hotel

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60 years ago
last Tuesday,
Ti Jean
headed west

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Tracing Kerouac’s path

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Kerouac
in Nebraska

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Kerouac
and/or
Jack London

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Gerald Nicosia’s
conspiracy theory

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The last words
of Kurt Vonnegut

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Preserving
Hemingway’s house
is against
U.S. policy

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Metaphor clusters,
metaphor chains
(PDF)

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Why is W.B. Keckler
wearing
Joe Brainard’s pyjamas?

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Poems for
Palestine and Lebanon:
two anthologies, one book

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William Gibson’s
modest proposal

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A pox on Harry Potter,
he wrote furiously

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Harry Potter
& the psychology of
the “realist novel”

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The voice
of Harry Potter

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This year’s
Forward short list

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How many editors
would even recognize
the work of
Jane Austen?

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Commas,
anxiety
& the American way

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Global English

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And an attempt
at “Radical Language

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Cultgeist?

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Three of the five poets
in this anthology
of new Maltese poetry
live in
Belgium & Luxembourg

A web page for the book
with links to sound files

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Post-black” culture

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A troupe
of cowboy poets

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Getting ready
for the
National Slam

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Graphic Arts Monthly
looks at the scroll

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In favor of
Roger Scruton,
Big Tobacco’s
favorite philosopher,
ardent advocate
of all
Schools of Quietude

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Ideologies
of war & terror

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Photography & truth
(just wait
until he discovers
PhotoShop)

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Theresa Duncan
& Jeremy Blake
have both
committed suicide

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The Barnes way

Saturday, July 21, 2007




Sekou Sundiata

19482007


         
And what if we could show
that what we dream
              is deeper than what we know?

Wednesday, July 18, 2007




Dmitri Prigov,

Russia’s
leading conceptualist poet,
has died

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Poet & performance artist
Sandy Crimmins
has died

§

Harvey Goldner,
the Bard of Belltown,”
has also died

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Alzheimer’s kills
Philip Booth

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Leonard Schwartz’
Cross-Cultural Poetics
radio archives

(over 100 hours
of terrific stuff)

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Destroying books
as art

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The San Diego Union-Tribune
folds its Sunday Book Review

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The audience laughs
while the writer
breaks down in tears

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Another occasion to cry:
The Last Novel

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Or,
try it the other way:
80 pages of discussion
concerning humor & poetry

Plus
24 pages of poetry
from the HumPo
list

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When
(if)
Shakespeare met Cervantes

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“As a surrealist,
I quite enjoy having dementia

George Melly is dead

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A lengthy portrait
of Mayakovsky

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The politics
of book reviews

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John Irving
on
Günter Grass

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Lorraine Wild
& the design of books

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Modest proposals
for a right-wing
English curriculum

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Peggy Fox on
Ezra Pound, James Laughlin
& the founding of
New Directions
(PDF)

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The New York Times
obit
for Mary Ellen Solt
tries
to demonstrate
vispo
in its text

& the Associate Press piece

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Imagine a review
of Paul Celan translations
that alludes to the work
of Pierre Joris
as an afterthought

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The silliest
”Great American Novel”
list
I’ve ever read

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The slam team
from Springfield

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Terry Eagleton’s
Mikhail Bakhtin

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San Francisco’s
International Poetry Festival
reflect’s the city’s
beat street roots

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A hospital
with a poet laureate

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A profile of
Barry Spacks

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The impact of metaphor
on scientific theory
(PDF)

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Hypertext
on a refrigerator door

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How
not
to start a magazine

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Early writer’s block

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Language, Mind & Culture
(PDF)

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Salman Rushdie,
between East & West

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Another review
of Carol Muske-Duke’s
prison (writing worksho) memoir

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To whom it may concern

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Buying David Halberstam’s
apartment

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Foreword Magazine’s
Book of the Year Finalists,
all 699 of them

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Who killed the novel?
Tony Soprano!

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Is selling on the web
devaluing
used & rare books
?

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In Canada,
fears that bookselling
may be a dying industry

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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore articles
come from
The OC
& West Hollywood
while in
Brentwood,
a bookstore is spared

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But it’s
bricks & clicks
for
Detroit
booksellers

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In Chicago,
they’re arguing
over
which bookstore
is best

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Banning chains
to save
the independents

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Pennsylvania libraries
may be endangered

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If you think
bookstores are hurting . . .

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Jazz & fiction

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The latest lament
o’er the demise
of “classical” music

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The architecture
of Zaha Hadid

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Frida Kahlo
turns 100

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Mass MoCA mayhem

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Is Banksy
Britain’s best?

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Busting the tag

§

The Chinese ‘Mona Lisa

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The dealer who bought
a Raphael

for $325

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The art bubble

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Tales of parenting
& the circus

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Paris Fashion Week

& here

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Flickr’s
censorship problems
in
Germany
& elsewhere

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Scorsese’s way