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

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Introducing Erica Hunt

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Untitled New York:
Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing

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A large anthology of new Russian poetry
in the latest number of Jacket

Thursday, January 08, 2009

More books into Braille!

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Poetry & capitalism

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Jack Spicer’s “Golem”

Spicer celebration at SF Main Library
Saturday, Jan. 10

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Richard Seaver has passed away

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So has Carol Adair, Kay Ryan’s partner

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American Hybrid

Some Hybrid

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Partial MLA offsite reading
(85MB, Gordon thru Rothenberg,
available only to Saturday)

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Jessa Crispin talking with Clayton Eshleman

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Why teach literature?

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A profile of the most popular
poetry contest in the world

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Anti-war poetry then & now

Among Gaza’s atrocities

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Doug Messerli
on
Emma Bee Bernstein

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Editing friends

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Francisco Goldman on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

Natasha Wimmer on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

Listening to Goldman & Wimmer
on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

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Nazim Hikmet gets his citizenship back
(too bad he’s been dead for 45 years)

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When Langpo & flarf are not enough

Is “embarrassment” more important than
”offensiveness” to flarf?

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(Re)emerging poets

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Talking with Arielle Greenberg

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Bashō finds an abandoned infant
& leaves it to die

Response to the video

Bashō: The Complete Haiku

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Always on: libraries in a world
of permanent connectivity

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Where Barack buys books

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Where Tom Hanks gets his

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A coup at Borders

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Remembering Glenn Goldman

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How to kill a bookstore:
raise the rent to $1 million

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After 85 years,
Stacey’s to close in SF

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The indie bookstores of
Montpelier, Vermont

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Making used books pay

A renaissance for used books?

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2008: the poetry year in review

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Roberta Beary: one-minute poetry reading

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Still answering H.L. Hix’ “20 Questions”

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Pervasive communication environments

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Every book ever published
will end up online

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Is captcha poetry hipper than flarf?

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Remembering Dave Church

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Mark Doty, making it real

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Remembering Jason Shinder

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Linh Dinh’s Seven Contemporary Italian Poets:
Marco Giovenale
Gherardo Bortolotti

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Looking for a laureate

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Cuba opens Hemingway e-archives

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Shakespeare’s church is becoming unsafe

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Writing & fame –
the case of Mishima

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Frank Wilson’s likes & dislikes for 2008

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Asher Ghaffar & Sue Sinclair

rob mclennan on Asher Ghaffar

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Why spell-check sucks

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Publishing: the new austerity

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The “G” in FSG

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Magazine ads are drying up

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Readings at rush hour
at the train station!

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Talking with Mark Irwin

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Work needed for Poet’s Pause

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The oldsters turn out for
Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3

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Donald Westlake has died

Terry Gross talks to Westlake

Remembering Westlake

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Celebrating W.D. Snodgrass

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Talking with Mark Gwynne Jones

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A poem-a-day for a decade

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Talking with Peter Bennet

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David Lunde’s Breaking the Willow

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The origin of originality

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Worst poetry book covers, 2008

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Stanley Fish goes to the movies
(he gets Vertigo right)

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Quietists who correspond

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The fiction lineup for ought nine

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Cell-phone novels

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Hating all the new Canadian anthologies

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The state of the humanities

Humanities Indicators Prototype (HIP)

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In this recession, who will support the arts

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What happens to the arts
when critics disappear

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The Art Instinct

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David Denby gets all snarky

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Philosophy at (in) the movies

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Making MOCA work

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Foulds wins a Costa

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Matisse’s model speaks

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An artsy homeless shelter

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The opposite of blockbuster

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The man who invented ballet

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Terry Teachout’s top 25
classical recordings of all time

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Music theory now

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The pitch-time continuum

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Grateful Dead analysis:
the relationship between
concert & listening behavior

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Betty Freeman & the music she commissioned

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Ive’s ears

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What we can learn from Guitar Hero

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Magic may be over for
the Magic Theater

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Another at risk
in Beverly, Mass

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What will change
E V E R Y T H I N G ?

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Russian avant-garde books digitized

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Bob Holman & Pappa Susso on the Griot Trail

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Translating procedural poetry

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Erik Davis on the new Jack Spicer collected

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Close reading aloud
Ezra Pound

Texas gets papers from the
Ezuversity

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Downloadable archives of the
Joe Milford Poetry Show

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Minnie Bruce Pratt
in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry
(PDF)

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Didi Menendez’ new blog
shows a better way
to present PDF online

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Jonathan Lethem’sLostronaut

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A film of John Giorno reading
that runs 10 hours & 6 minutes

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Jonathan Lethem on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

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Close reading Aaron Belz

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Peter Cole:
”Things on Which I’ve Stumbled”

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Political poetry is back”

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Is anyone blogging
the Modernist Studies Association conference
in
Nashville (hint hint)?

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1956 recording of Gary Snyder found

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Two dozen full-length readings,
talks & discussions by
John Ashbery

Reading “The System,”
Ashbery’s most important poem

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Poetry & the “long haul

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Michael Dirda on Paul Auster

Talking with Auster

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Farid Adil Mansuri,
Gujurati poet exiled in
New Jersey,
has died

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James Merrill, poet of excess

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Reading Rae Armantrout
in Joe Brainard’s pyjamas

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A report of Rae Armantrout at the Folger
by someone who wasn’t there

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Philadelphia,
where the free library was invented
by Ben Franklin,
threatens to shut 11

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In Charlotte, indie bookstores struggle,
used bookstores fare better

A used bookshop in the mall

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I never metadata I didn’t like

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Welsh poet sets off
a tiff with the wing nuts

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Michiko Kakutani on Burroghs & Kerouac

The book Kerouac co-wrote
13 years before On the Road

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Talking with Emma Trelles

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David Orr on the letters of Ted Hughes

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Boston tries to usurp Poe

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Zadie Smith: realism or not?

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Translating Creeley into Spanish
(with a seriously out-of-date bio note)
(PDF)

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The Joyce of Ing Glitch

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Jordan Davis on
Yusef Komunyakaa’s Warhorses

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War poetry by Isaac Rosenberg

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Jake Adam York’s A Murmuration of Starlings

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Talking with Renee Burton

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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn & Edward Said

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Mary Karr on Bly’s Kabir

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The function of place
in teaching English

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A bookstore organized by geography

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Whitman & his brothers at war

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Jeanette Winterson on T.S. Eliot

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Wittgenstein & biography

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Slam narratives

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Poetry vs. science

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In Taipei, a poetry festival

English-language work at the festival

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T.C. Boyle: advice to young writers

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Do book prizes discriminate against women?

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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

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Atiq Rahimi wins the Goncourt

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Man Booker Prize or not,
The White Tiger is a dud

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The five-foot bookcase

More on Mortimer’s folly

& more still
(Are we anxious yet?)

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Maurya Simon has a poem read
by Garrison Keillor

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Chaucer for dummies

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Carol Muske-Dukes
is California’s new poet laureate

In San Luis Obispo County,
James Cushing is named

In Wisconsin,
Marilyn Taylor appointed to the post

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Living with Roald Dahl

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Kafka on the day job

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NPR coverage of the Miami Book Fair

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Neil Gaiman:
the “most famous” unknown author

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Camilla Paglia
on how she produced
Break, Blow, Burn

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Robert Kenney overcomes his introduction

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Rosetta Reitz has passed away

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George Lewis on new music & the academy

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Lost Beatles epic
or Paul wanking off

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A director is fired
for supporting the Calif. Hate Amendment

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Vispo in the Mad Hatters Review

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Graphic Novel Reporter starts now

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A.S. Maulucci on the eidetic

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Gehry’s new spin
on his hometown museum

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Schwabsky: the art world explained

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What is art for?

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Why a downturn in the art market matters

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A gallery tour by Charles Bernstein

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Oranges & sardines at UCLA

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Talking with Vivienne Westwood

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When is advertising sexist?

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Editing the New York Times

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The Chicago Tribune lays off John Crewdson,
whom I’ve known since elementary school

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Outsourcing TV news anchors

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A 15th-century scroll
with a serious vispo sensibility

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Hitler’s library

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A do-it-yourself library
for women in
Tehran

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Barack Obama on libraries

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Talking with Joan Halifax

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I, Susan Pollack, to Gloucester

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Does genius exist?

Does Malcolm Gladwell?

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Do public intellectuals still exist?

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Remembering John Leonard

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Why you suck as a teacher
(or maybe don’t)

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Žižek’s Obama

& James Wood’s

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The wild wordsmith of Wasilla

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A love letter to Fox News

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