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  • ‘I Feel A Bit Like A Spy’: NPR’s Q&A With David Lehman

    November 2, 2013

    photo (c) John Tranter (Ed note: In a year that included publication of The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Best American Poetry 2013, David Lehman has also published his New and…

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  • Fire Up Your Kindle for Ming Holden’s “The Survival Girls”

    November 2, 2013

    We first met Ming Holden in 2008, during a visit to Mongolia. At the time, Ming, a graduate of Brown University, was a Luce Scholar working on establishing a PEN chapter for Mongolian writers.…

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  • “Private Eye” [by Ron Horning]

    November 2, 2013

    For some reason I think Ghirardelli Square is Aquatic Park and walk to the end of Columbus one Sunday off. Pretty bad, so it must have been a lot different when Spicer came here—…

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  • Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Conversation with Norman Conquest, editor of Black Scat Books

    November 2, 2013

    NA: Tell me about Black Scat Books?   NC: When I was in the eighth grade I was given detention for clowning around in class. When the teacher left the room briefly (probably to…

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  • Leaves of Glass [by Alexandra Zelman-Doring]

    November 2, 2013

    Theodor Reik left Vienna in the post-war years and moved to Berlin.  He built up his practice there, and one day received a request from Vienna for an appointment with a wealthy American.  The man described…

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  • “November Limericks” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]

    November 1, 2013

    26.There was a young man from Waukeegan,Who was happily dating a vegan.There were times when he irked her by eating a burger, But each found the other intriguing. 27.There was an old person whose…

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