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Igry [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, My husband John Chaneski invented a word. It is "igry" and it means social embarrassment. Someone else is doing something that makes you embarrassed for them, whether or not they are themselves embarrassed.…
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An Embarrassment of Riches (by Laura Orem)
Last weekend, I went to New York for The Best American Poetry 2009 reading and book launch. In between all the literary fun, I spent a morning at MOMA, the newly-revamped Museum of Modern…
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The NBCC at 35 & Edgar Allan Poe
It's the thirty-fifth anniversary of the National Book Critics Circle, an organization that arose out of the conviction that book reviewers are the right people to decide book prizes just as sportswriters are the…
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Monday @ KGB: Amy Lawless & Patricia Carlin
The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading SeriesHosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone Presents . . . Amy Lawless & Patricia Carlin Monday, October 5 @ 7:30 PM Admission is FREE For…
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‘Masterpiece Comics’: ‘Where classics and cartoons collide!’
There are a lot of first-rate comic-art releases just now (I recommend David Small's Stitches: A Memoir and R. Crumb's imminent, extraordinary, illustrated Book of Genesis). But let me call your attention to Masterpiece…
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William Waltz presents. . .a poem by Greg Bachar
During the glorious summer of 1993, my dear accomplice Brett Astor and I were awhirl in the air-conditioned confines of a Massachusetts copy center, cutting, pasting, and assembling the premier issue of Conduit. At…
