Louis Armand’s
Avant-Post:
The Avant-Garde Under “Post” Conditions
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Talking with Amy King
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The 2009 MLA Offsite reading
in 18 videos
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Talking with Jennifer Scappettone
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Aimé Césaire’s Soleil cou coupé
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“Hackers Attack Silliman’s Blog!”
Liu Xiaobo appeals sentence
Fighting for freedom of speech in Ireland
25 blasphemous quotes,
from Christ to Frank Zappa
& fighting for freedom of religion in Switzerland
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Quietism speaks up!
Anis Shivani
on the sins of the post-avant
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Brenda Iijima’s revv.you’ll – ution
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Latina poets speak
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On Lourdes Vazuez:
The Caribbean in Exile
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Readings by Canadian writers
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Talking with Mark Wallace
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Book Bombs
for the homeless
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The Lord of the Orchards,
a massive feature on the life & work of
Jonathan Williams,
has grown & grown
(&, hint, would make a great book)
Michael Lally on Jonathan Williams
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Don Share on Ray DiPalma
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Bob Perelman:
The Trouble with Genius
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Notes on Conceptualisms,
the movie
Robert Smithson & Nancy Holt
in the original version
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Talking with Niyi Osundare
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Reading report:
Judith Goldman & Adam Pendleton
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Kevin Killian on Leland Hickman
A reading of Tiresias @ the Poetry Project,
January 13
with Elaine Equi, Alan Gilbert, Pierre Joris,
Douglas A. Martin, Bill Mohr, Stephen Motika,
John Yau, Marjorie Welish and more
“Against taxonomies”
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Greenland’s languages are endangered
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Talking with Maysoon al-Eryani
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A tiny reading by Graham Foust
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The Middlemen:
How translators are boosting India’s writers
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Did Google steal Philip K. Dick’s ©
in naming its phone?
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When Lulu decides to collaborate with your text …
Some of what you aren’t seeing (yet)
can be found here & here
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Talking with Ange Mlinko
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“Worst famous poem ever?”
“Invictus”
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Big Bridge
in the Crescent City
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Louis Zukofsky
& the Transformation of
a Modern American Poetics
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“From Heuristic to Aleatory Procedures:
or, ‘Toward Writing the Accident’”
(reg. req.)
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Talking with Matthew Zapruder
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Yosano Akiko
& the Birth of the Female Voice
in Modern Japanese Poetry
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Australia’s new TV show,
Bush Slam
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Breyten Breytenbach’s
Voice Over:
A Nomadic Conversation with
Mahmoud Darwish
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Hélène Cixous: Readings:
The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector & Tsvetayeva
(reg. req.)
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Ed Baker’s
very first reading ever
is online
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Responses to Ed Sanders’ Poems for New Orleans
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Who’s Beat?
(& how retro am I?)
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Forgery bedevils Kerouac estate
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Even Alanis Morissette
is writing a Kerouac book
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Allen Ginsberg & the Harvard Psychedlic Club
Patti Smith:
“Footnote to Howl”
Patti Smith:
Dream of Life
PBS website, with lots of extras
Ben Whishaw
on the Lucien Carr murder film
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Enshrining the Venice West Café
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Neeli Cherkovski on the Jane Crown Radio Show
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Handmade books
from the streets of Argentina
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Jillian Weise, cyborg poet
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Dave Brink’s The Caveat Onus
Talking with Dave Brinks
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Some illuminated,
illuminating texts
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The program for this year’s
Louisville Conference
(PDF available)
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Talking with Kirby Congdon
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The Ecstatic Peace
Poetry Journal
reading & performance series
@ White Columns
320 W. 13th Street, NYC
has a most interesting lineup
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The Oxford job is open again
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John Gallaher
on brevity in Ashbery’s Planisphere
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Alan Sondheim: Philosophy
(reg. req.)
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John Jeffcock,
a war poet for our times
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Bataille’s only known TV interview
(with English subtitles)
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Lydia Davis’ “The Cows,”
the movie
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Karri Kokko
has been publishing
a chapbook of vispo
each day so far this year
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Gerald L. Bruns:
On the Anarchy of Poetry & Philosophy:
A Guide for the Unruly
(reg. req.)
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Joseph Mitchell’s
Joe Gould’s Secret
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How to use an apostrophe
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Millions Poets
is set to start its fourth season
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Whom do you like to follow on Twitter?
(asked deep in the heart of Kansas)
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David Gewanter’s War Bird
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Aaron Belz’s
“30 Illegal Moves
in the Cloud-Shape Game”
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Talking with Rob Winger
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William Carlos Williams’
papers @ Yale
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A new job for an urban library:
social worker
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Andrew Motion on Frank O’Hara
On Alice Oswald
Motion:
teachers fear poetry
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Dino Buzzati’s Poem Strip
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Joan Retallack:
The Poethical Wager
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Can old books save Timbuktu?
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Vera Pavlova on PBS Newshour
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Here come the e-readers
E-readers kindle new options
What defines an e-reader?
Skiff:
the largest & thinnest of e-readers
“Tablet is the new book”
e-readers at CES
e-readers with 2 screens
Even Lady Gaga can’t battle e-reader buzz
These toys may all be duds
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Why doesn’t Game Change
change the publishing game?
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What you can learn
from the most pirated e-book
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Essentialism vs. socialization
of the feminine
The Specter of Sex:
The Gendered Foundations
of Racial Formation
in the United States
(reg. req.)
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Cynthia Haynes:
“Arctic Virgins: Élecriture & the Semiotics
of Circumpolar Icon(o)graphé
(reg. req.)
“Writing Offshore:
The Disappearing Coastline
of Composition Theory”
(reg. req.)
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The “father” of Canadian literature
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A Kuwaiti poet of reason
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“Tagmemic
for the Whole of Composition”
(reg. req.)
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Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn
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Lewis MacAdams
on Orhan Pamuk’s LA
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Chesterton’s world
& what’s wrong with it
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Like the old Ithaca House Press,
a college publisher run by students
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New Orleans:
Surre(gion)al City
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The bicentennial of the death of
Mir Taqi Mir
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The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley
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Remembering Dennis Brutus
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Singular Women:
Writing the Artist
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Mark Bernstein:
“On Hypertext Narrative”
“Shadows in the Cave:
Hypertext Transformations”
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There is no “raw” material
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Reading Eminescu in India
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Jerry Ward’s The Katrina Papers
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One of Issa’s strangest books,
Richard Lewis’ Of This World
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Christopher Beach:
The ABC of Influence
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A profile of Muztar Majaz
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Bill Griffiths:
A History of the Solar System
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Michael Lally
on making lists in the brain
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The Creeley tag in tumblr
&, natch, the Ron Silliman tag
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Green Apple’s 2009 best seller list
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Year’s “9 best” small press books
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Granary Books at Ohio State
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Ferlinghetti in ’66:
no place to go but in,
India
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T.V. Reed:
Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers:
Literary Politics and the Poetics
of American Social Movements
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The MasterWriter demo
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Talking with Michael Turner
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A history of the memoir
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Words without Borders:
International flash fiction issue
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Helen Losse on the Jane Crown Poetry Show
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Paul Pines’
Last Call at the Tin Palace
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Sending off the archives
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Garrett Stewart’s
Reading Voices:
Literature & the Phonotext
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Gébé’s “Letter to Survivors”
(A graphic short fiction)
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John D’Agata’s
Lost Origins of the Essay
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Francisco Aragón
receives national Latino literary award
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Plus a prize for
Michelle A. Peñaloza
“Butiki”
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Jeffrey Knapp’s
Empire Nowhere:
England, America,
& Literature from Utopia to the Tempest
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Conrad DiDiodato
reading with the dead
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The anagram poems of Mike Smith
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Border poets collaborate for peace
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Shovel-ready words
that deserve to be unfriended
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Serge Gavronsky’s
Toward a New Poetics:
Contemporary Writing in France
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Don’t fear the e-reader
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Ty Miller’s Late Modernism:
Politics, Fiction, & the Arts Between the World Wars
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The MLA job market:
it ain’t personal
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Timothy Murphy’s
Wising Up the Marks:
The Amodern (sic) William Burroughs
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Talking with Jacob McArthur Mooney
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Donald Wesling’s
The Chances of Rhyme:
Device & Modernity
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A death-of-a-bookstore tale
from Winnipeg
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But Black Oak is back!
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Holiday booksales down at B&N:
is it a trend?
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The supermarket & the indie bookshop
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The role of browsing
in the museum called
City Lights
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Wai-Lim Yip’s
Diffusion of Distances:
Dialogues Between Chinese & Western Poetics
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The ghost of WG Sebald
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Contemporary Fiction
& the Ethics of Modern Culture
(reg. req.)
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Talking with John Sinclair
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35 years of Lake Wobegon jokes
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Christopher Reid
on winning the Costa Award
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Iman Moradi: GLTCH Aesthetics
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Deconstructing
Romeo & Juliet
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Talking with Jonathan Ball
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Sheila Delany’s
The Naked Text:
Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
Marshall Leicester’s
The Disenchanted Self:
Representing the Subject in the Canterbury Tales
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Kristeva on Bakhtin
(reg. req.)
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A lesson plan
on the perception of time
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The lives of Montaigne
Montaigne’s message:
go with the flow
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Reading & emotional intelligence
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Susan Howe & David Grubbs
on collaboration
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Skip Fox’s For To
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Mary Swander,
Iowa’s Poet Laureate
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Walter Bargen
reflects on term
as Missouri laureate
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Charles Bernstein’s
American Poetry After 1975
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Honoring Richard Wilbur in Key West
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Leslie Heywood’s
Dedication to Hunger:
The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture
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Kate Zambreno’s
“Consciousness is a Surface:
Literary Style Icons”
“That’s What Makes It Art, Bitch”
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Talking with Joseph Briggs
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Jeffrey Segall’s
Joyce in America
Maria Tymoczko’s
The Irish Ulysses
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Fiction dominates
TLS translation prizes
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In Vietnam,
foreigners “lap up” translations
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Andrei Biely:
Glossolalia
(reg. req.)
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Ben Okri has a poem emerging on Twitter
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Marta Ester Sáchez’
Contemporary Chicana Poetry
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Bayly & Bolaño
top Latin American book market
for 2010
Nazi Literature in the Americas
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Thomas de Quincy,
“odious little creep”
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Talking with Bill Zavatsky
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Sarkozy & Camus: WTF?
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Talking with James Ellroy
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Bakhtin: Speech Genres
(reg. req.)
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How to save newspapers
(with a hint from PETA)
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Understanding New Media
(reg. req.)
Visual Digital Culture
(reg. req.)
Digital Media Revisited
(reg. req.)
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Merleau-Ponty:
Sense and Non-Sense
(reg. req.)
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Talking with Daniel Nester
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Serious creative writing
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Katie Roiphe condensed
Prose of the mid-century emo-boys
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Judith Bernstein’s phalluses revealed
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Meiling Cheng’s
In Other Los Angeleses:
Multicentric Performance Art
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Dore Ashton’s
A Critical Study of Philip Guston
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Olmec sculpture coming to LA
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Bill Lavender’s collabs
with visual artists
William Allegrezza on Bill Lavender
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The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp
Popular precedents to Duchamp
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Rene Magritte image collection
(reg. req.)
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Andre Breton:
Manifesto of Surrealism
(reg. req.)
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Each year Apex Art
(in NYC’s Tribeca)
has two “unsolocited exhibitions” --
here’s how to apply
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Michael Lally on
East of West LA
East of West LA website
With blurbs from Lewis MacAdams & Phil Jackson
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Linh Dinh & Peter van Agtmael
have an exchange
on use vs. exploitation
in war photography
after Linh is interviewed by Scott Bloemker
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Walter Benjamin & the aura of photography
(reg. req.)
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“The Lolita Complex in the work of Jock Sturges”
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Nat Finkelstein,
Warhol’s court photographer
Is James Franco the next Warhol?
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Bill Berkson & Molly Springfield:
“Dear Molly Proust”
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California Modernist Art 1900 – 1950
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Sean Cubitt:
The Cinema Effect
(reg. req.)
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Cormac McCarthy’s reaction
to the film of The Road
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James Wagner & Thom Donovan
on violence in the cinema
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William Wees’
Light Moving in Times:
Studies in the Visual Aesthetics
of Avant-Garde Film
Mikhail Iampolski’s
The Memory of Tiresias:
Intertextuality and Film
Philip Kubelski’s
The Persistence of Memory:
Organism, Myth, Text
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Is Sherlock Holmes gay?
Holmes the amorphous
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Talking with Ralph Bakshi
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Animation 100 years ago:
Little Nemo: Watch Me Move
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The ten most-produced plays in America
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Behind the Postmodern Façade:
Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America
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Rockpile on the road
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Yoko Ono
autobio
due in 2015
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NY Times obit for
Lhasa de Sela
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Erik Satie’s
Complete Works for Piano
performed by Aldo Ciccolini
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Vijay Iyer profiled in the Hindustan Times
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Boulez’s “gentle roar”
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2 very different
“Dylan projects”
Talking with Nina Goss
about Montague Street
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NEA survey
on public participation in the arts
(Only 8.3% of Americans read poetry in ’08,
down from 12.1% in 2002)
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Carl Kassell signs off Morning Edition
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Refried Elvis:
The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture
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Architect of the Monkeemobile
Lyrics to “Little GTO”
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Pleasure, scarcity
& website addiction
§
The Collapse of Philosophy
& Its Rebirth
(reg. req.)
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John Gallaher’s thoughts while reading
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Reading The Principles of Uncertainty
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Is the net changing how you think?
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Paul Rabinow essay collection
(reg. req.)
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Peter Burns:
Introduction to Tourism & Anthropology
(reg. req.)
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The Levinas Reader
(reg. req.)
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Critical theory arrives at B-school
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Žižek’s apocalypse
The Parallax View
(reg. req.)
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Google is good
for the study of history
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Don De Lillo:
“In the Ruins of the Future”
(reg. req.)
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Short profile of Jaron Lanier
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Bourdieu’s Politics
(reg. req.)
