Alain Robbe-Grillet has died at 85
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Rae Armantrout in The New Yorker
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Talking with Peter Gizzi
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The New York poetry scene
A new translation of Poet in New York
Michael Dirda on NYC & AWP
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The sound poems of bpNichol
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Conceptual poetry in Arizona
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Hugh MacDiarmid
& the Stone of Scone
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Pound’s moody genius
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468CThyFuture:
video as book, book as video
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The Frost medal for Michael Harper
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Project: to read 200 books
in 2008 & blog it all
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The world’s most widely read
living poet
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If Robert Creeley
were a character in Peanuts,
would he be Linus?
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Christian Bök on Dennis Lee
& on chance in writing
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WorldCat:
find books in a library near you
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One more reason
to go to the library
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Almodovar to film Marcos Ana biopic
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Rachel Zucker’s Bad Wife Handbook
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Sharon Mesmer’s Annoying Diabetic Bitch
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Major Jackson’s Hoops
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Trevor Joyce’s What’s in Store
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The two sides of Paul Muldoon
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Jen Hadfield’s Nigh-No Place
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A memorial for Landis Everson at St. Marks
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The first e-book to reach one million downloads?
Percentage of students
who have bought e-textbooks: 18
(PDF)
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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore tales
come from Pittsburgh and Washington, DC
The role of supermarkets
in the decline of bookstores
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Where textbook dollars go (PDF)
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How to save money on books
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Talking with Philip Roth
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Irvan Perez has died, & with him
some of the last links to Ileños
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Talking with Hiram Larew
(part two)
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Lee Sharkey & the war on words
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A profile of Miguel Barnet
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Edward Byrne on
Patricia Fargnoli & B.H. Fairchild
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Anne Waldman chants the plight of manatees
John Flynn sings of their snot
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Ashraf Hossain’s On Behula’s Raft
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Getting a reading series going in Malaysia
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Videos of a youth slam
at Richard Hugo House
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The poetry of Roger Clemens
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Should Cathal Ó Searcaigh
stay in the curriculum?
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Robert Pinsky on Alan Shapiro
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How dumb are we?
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Is reading doomed?
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Writers as drunks
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The wit of Rye, NY
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Roberto Bolaño’s imaginary monsters
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£15,000 to imitate BART in Russia
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Vendler’s Yeats
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A profile of Henri Cole
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Is © foe heading for Congress?
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Talking with Carl Phillips
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The Library of America’s 979-page edition
of a poet who published just 90 poems
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Talking with Simon Armitage
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A portrait of the poet
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Charlie Simic in Delaware
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Theater and the suspicion of language
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The resurrection of Richard Yates
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James Wood: lost in translation
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Make Me a Supercritic
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(Art) journalism vs. blogging
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Julian Schnabel’s journey
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Dorothy Podber has died
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Frida Kahlo in Philadelphia
“with eyes half open”
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Art and the feminist revolution
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Philip Guston’s Poor Richard
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A renaissance in public art in the UK?
(Slideshow here)
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Illicit cultural property
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Japanese supreme court
overturns Mapplethorpe obscenity ruling
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Julian Bell on Lucian Freud
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Roscoe Mitchell, scientist of sound
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The problem of importantitis
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The alleged importance of publishers
in music
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Is listening gendered?
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You call this an arts policy?
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“How one interprets Modernism
depends on what one includes”
