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  • Looking Back at 2008: Mahmoud Darwish (by Jenny Factor)

    December 29, 2008

    Before we say goodbye to 2008, I'd like to take a moment to remember poet, Mahmoud Darwish. A fellow Piscean (born March 13, 1941), Darwish died in August 2008 in the United States. He…

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  • “Lost in the Far-Flown Stars” [by Star Black]

    December 29, 2008

    Lost in the Far-Flown Stars As a mermaid on a pirate's plank slipsoff the ship into blue froth, so the child dreamson a magic pillow to reach the tooth fairy's realmsof frilled radiance with…

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  • The Oil Burned for Eight Nights!

    December 28, 2008

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  • Roman Holidays (ii) [by Moira Egan]

    December 28, 2008

    When I first saw the blue and white lights, I thought it was some weird reflection.

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  • Hanukkah for Humanists from your Happy Historian (something to mull on a gray day in the no man’s land between xmas and new years.) [Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    December 28, 2008

    Want to read my essay for the New York Times two years ago?   BTW any article I ever wrote was edited more than all my books together.  But my prose is a little…

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  • Film Still Series – Intimacies # 1 [by Bill Hayward]

    December 28, 2008

    From the forthcoming film by Bill Hayward, Asphalt, Muscle and Bone, about a man at risk, the persistence of imagination and the impossibility of love. Produced by Bill Hayward and Anna Elman. See more…

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