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  • “The Lordly Hudson” [by Paul Goodman]

    September 11, 2008

    "The Lordly Hudson" "Driver, what stream is it?" I asked, well knowingit was our lordly Hudson hardly flowing."It is our lordly Hudson hardly flowing,"he said, under the green-grown cliffs." Be still, heart! No one…

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  • a formal feeling [by Amy Lemmon]

    September 10, 2008

    Mood: Decidedly mischievous Location: Where do you think? Dinner: Demarchelier, with a perfect stranger and a nice Sancerre Once again I am posting perilously close to the end of the day–I could claim I…

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  • To the barricades…. (by Mitch Sisskind)

    September 10, 2008

    I have to admit I’m very stimulated by Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential candidacy! For one thing, this was prophesied many years ago by Bob Dylan in his song "Sara," with its lyrics about "sleeping in…

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  • Erotomania!

    September 10, 2008

    Francis Levy’s debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released late August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio.  Levy had originally wanted to call the book Savage Fuck, but no matter. In her favorable review, Joan…

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  • Excitement Builds for The Best American Poetry 2008

    September 10, 2008

    The Best American Poetry 2008, guest edited by Charles Wright, lands in book stores any day now.  Readings on both coasts are planned to celebrate its arrival: Tuesday, September 16th, 7:30 pmMrs. Dalloway’s2904 College…

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  • “The Parable of the Old Man and the Young” [by Wilfred Owen]

    September 10, 2008

    The Parable of the Old Man and the Young So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,And took the fire with him, and a knife.And as they sojourned both of them together,Isaac the…

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