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Sunday, March 09, 2008

John Ashbery in Haverford

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Serge Gavronsky’s Andorthe

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Linton Kwesi Johnson, looking back

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Al Filreis on the politics
of the School of Quietude (MP3)

Filreis’ Modernism from Right to Left

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Remembering Vincent Ferrini

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Matthea Harvey, talking with Jeannine Hall Gailey

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The poems of Grace Paley

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Rigoberto Gonzáles on Juan Felipe Herrera

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A new view toward epigrams

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Beatnik questionnaire

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Official Verse Culture accepts Charles Bernstein

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Lorca, Gray, Erba

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A brief introduction to Louis Zukofsky

& an interesting discussion of Basil Bunting

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New poems by Linh Dinh, Miles Champion,
Ange Mlinko & Arlo Quint

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Mark Ford’s Frank O’Hara

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Poets on Painters
has made its way to
Queens

A review of the anthology here

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Ted Burke’s review of
The Age of Huts

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Daisy Fried’s favorite word

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Strand Books
now has web TV
in addition to
”18 miles of books”

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TitlePage debuts
not with a bang, but …

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Mary Jo Bang has won the 2007
National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry

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Mary Jo Salter,
”part of the niggling history of taste”

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“Minor” work

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Celebrity poetry

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Ray Davies, rock poet

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Reginald Shepherd on why
disco is better than punk

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The Petaluma Poetry Walk

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Reading Ginsberg reading Blake

Bolcom’s Blake

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nearly faceless creatures

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Entertainment at its simplest

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Auden in America

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Norman Nicholson in Cumbria

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Homer’s children

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Talking with Daniel Crowley

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The politics of laureateship

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The laureate composes a verse

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Poetry “comes from my heart

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Baseball & poetry

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The unpublished works of Arthur Miller

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Indie bookstores in L.A.

& one in Beacon, NY

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LibraryThing
& Library Thing Local
(the makings of a good list
of readings & events)

Coffee & the fate of libraries

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Digital © rules stall in Canada

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Serious readers have gone online

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Why poetry matters

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Slamming in Harare

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Gemineye at St. Olaf’s

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Ted Kooser’s valentines

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One more non-diary

Fact-checking isn’t that hard

How to fake an autobiography

Kafka’s problem

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Talking with Orante Churm

complete with flash fiction contest
(deadline: Mon., March 10)

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The Amis family’s problems with race

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A cult figure in Kashmiri verse

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A profile of Narrative Magazine

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Stan Brakhage’s last interview

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Talking with Henry Hills

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The Creativity Project of Oklahoma

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Using the arts to “reseed” Dumbo

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The best art in Houston
(& I include the Rothko Chapel)

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Who owns art?

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A profile of Alden Mason

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Talking with Michael Rovner

& with Daniel Joseph Martinez

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NPR director out

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Italy updates authors’ rights

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Access to web & world in Cuba

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Tang Wei (but not Tony Leung)
banned for Lust, Caution

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China’s none too happy with Bjork either

Thursday, March 06, 2008

The Children
by Philip Whalen & Aram Saroyan

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Linh Dinh, talking with Charles Alexander (MP3)

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Becoming collected:
the emerging collected works of
Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Barbara Guest & Robert Creeley

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David Lau on John Ashbery

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Jean Valentine is the New York State Poet

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Elaine Equi & Jean Valentine
among finalists for LA Times Book Award

Erin Mouré, C. Dale Young & Cole Swensen
are among many finalists in poetry
at ForeWord’s Book of the Year Awards

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Alan Davies on Michael Gottlieb

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Michael Dirda on Roberto Bolaño

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The question of book thieves

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Designs for the Bush Presidential Library

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Aestheticism & anxiety in the arts

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Michael Scharf on Stacy Doris

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Julio Cortázar & the poetics of exile

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Tom Pickard’s Ballad of Jamie Allen

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Josef Kaplan on Jeffrey Jullich

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Reading Stephen Burt
reading Robert Creeley

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our most thrilling poet

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Tisa Bryant on President of the United Hearts

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Is Things Fall Apart “immortal”?

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Allen Grossman, poet’s poet

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“Like the Beatles, Beach Boys &
Diana Ross and the Supremes
rolled into one…”

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Yoshimoto Taka’aki’s What is Beauty for Language?

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Who wrote Emily Bronte’s poems?

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Talking with Paul Muldoon

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The Complete Poetry of Jack London

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Charles Shere on
the shock of recognition

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Talking with Orhan Pamuk

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Edward Limonov:
the poet-politician opposing Putin

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Bookshelves for a post-literate world

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War Papers: Poems 2
compiled by Halvard Johnson

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Four texts by Brenda Hillman

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Was Shakespeare a poet who wrote plays,
a playwright who wrote poems,
or a pornographer who wrote both?

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Everyman’s Library recalled

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Malaysia’s first ever slam

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The shop floor poetics of Lisa Beatman

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Boyd Spahr’s The Julias

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Thomas Lux God Particles

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Talking with Bruno Latour

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Being judgmental

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The dark Larkin

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Li-Young Lee & octogenarian poetics

Li-Young Lee on the PBS News Hour

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Nikki Giovanni reads
in a wine shop in
Vacaville

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Restoring the artwork of e.e. cummings

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Robert Frost’s Collected Prose

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Talking with R. Reuben Appelman

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John Rybicki’s We Bed Down in Water

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The scene in Willow Glen

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Penguin audiobooks to drop © protection

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Cowboy poets in Lewiston, Idaho

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Bradford, Yorkshire gets a poet laureate

“I…have been asked not to be negative

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Simin Behbahani
wins a prize for Persian literature
from Stanford

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Billy Collins: English majors are
majoring in death

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AWP redux

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Poetry, narrative, database

Plus more on datapoetics

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John Rechy, 45 years after
City of
Night

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Is literary sex always bad?

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Emily Apter: What is translation?

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Text in social networking websites

Social networks are like the eye

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What’s in a newspaper?

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Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia

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More consequences than love here

Is it a mode of slumming?

The why of it

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Rambling with Richard Serra

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Walt Disney vs. Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen

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Another Dia director bites the dust

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The future (if any) of Spiral Jetty

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The mystery of music

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John Zorn’s critique of the critics

Two possible responses

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Make it newish

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Merce Cunningham without dance

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The LA Times drops dance criticism

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Another take on Shen Wei Dance Arts

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Foucault Beyond Foucault

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Can culture save Cleveland?

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An election where the arts matter?

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Rem Koolhaas utopia on the water

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The architecture critic is a star

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A tip of the wing to
Sustainable Aircraft,
the terrific new critical ezine

Monday, March 03, 2008

A festschrift for Phil Whalen’s Collected Poems

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Barrett Watten on Lytle Shaw’s Frank O’Hara

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Talking with Ken Edwards

Edwards’ No Public Language:
Selected Poems 1975 – 1995

Edwards’ “UK Small Press Publishing Since 1960

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A history of the Bolinas scene, 1967-1980

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Reginald Shepherd thinking (at length)
about categories & implications

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70 million tune in
to Million’s Poet finale

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The man who begat
William Burroughs & Kathy Acker?

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Several responses to Kitasono Katue’s
Oceans Beyond Monotonous Space

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The St. Marks’ Poetry Project
has begun archiving
its Newsletter online

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A profile of Terry Ehret

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Eléna Rivera’s In Respect of Distance

In Respect of Distance (PDF)

Rivera reading the text (MP3)

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The poems of John Newlove, Robin Skelton
& Fraser Sutherland

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A profile of Staceyann Chin

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Poets & fish

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Pinsky quits Poet’s Choice

Mary Karr takes over

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The strangest list ever on which to find Robert Frost

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An Anthology of Bay Area Women Writers
(Part I)

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Pound’s birthplace

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A “poetry partner” for Philip Glass

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A profile of Shihan

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Bringing the bookstore into the curriculum

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Today’s death-of-a-bookstore article
comes from Vineland, NY

The end is near in Putney, VT

& more about Dutton’s in Brentwood

& then there’s Las Vegas

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Abandoning print, keeping peer review

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No tears for the Quill Awards

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The center of the universe

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Mahmoud Darwish’s Now, As You Awaken

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Robert Crawford’s Full Volume

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War and Peace by e-mail

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Responding to d.a. levy

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On discovering Patrick Kavanagh

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The Freudian poetics of
Promad Kumar Mohanty

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Republican appoints Robert Bly
Minnesota Poet Laureate

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Looking for more political poetry
on op-ed pages

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Ask Nabokov

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Robert Lowell at 91

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Against professionalism in the arts

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Why creative writing classes suck

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What are the best short poems?

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Crime writers worth reading

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A theory of bookshelves

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The importance of not writing

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What should boys read?

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Reading:what’s that?

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Horton hears an online profit?

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Hey, why aren’t we following the screenwriters?

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The bard of West Hollywood

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Talking with Campbell McGrath

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Poet campaigns for patron

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Hippos on Holiday

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What is a number?

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Jane Dalrymple-Hollo’s
game without rules

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A farewell to feminism?

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Krens quits the Guggie

Krensoverstayed his welcome

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Art consultants & their clients

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Touring Chelsea

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The eclipse of Bach

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Amusia

Oliver Sacks on amusia

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Scrabble with Stephen Malkmus

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TEDblog

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Daniel Libeskind’s patrons

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The New College death spiral
moves toward an end

The WASC Commission Report (PDF)

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Some exaggeration may have occurred

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Metaphor Fest

Plus a masters in metaphor

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Buddy Miles c’est mort

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Many links today
from the new
& truly terrific
Big Bridge