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Great Bullshit Sentences of 2011
From J. C. Hallman's essay "Books Make Me Masturbate" in Zone #3: <<<The first to use the phrase "creative writing" was Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his speech "The American Scholar," delivered at Harvard in…
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The Best American Poetry 2011: “The core of what it is to be human”
Still buying holiday gifts for family, friends, colleagues? Give the gift of poetry! Read Michael Parker's review of The Best American Poetry 2011 to find out why this year's volume, with selections made by…
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Jericho Brown Farewell, Featuring The Phantastique 5
Thank you for following these posts all week, for your re-posts and your tweets and re-tweets and comments and discussions and phone calls telling friends to take a look at the love we've been…
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Beethoven and My Father
My father Joseph Lehman was born today in Furth, Germany, ninety-nine years ago. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in Bonn on the same date in 1770. When my father had his fatal heart attack…
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Christopher Hitchens RIP [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders,I've told you guys before about how Christopher Hitchens borrowed a mite too liberally from my book Doubt: A History, though he cited a lot he definitely did not give credit when it…
