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TITLE WAVE [By Steven Rea]
Ever write a poem, a story, a novel (hundreds of them, right?), and find yourself, at the end, in the throes of epic indecision, stymied and desperate to come up with the right title?…
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Squibs 327-333 [by Alan Ziegler]
327: My socks do match—they’re just not identical. 328: Two movies in which Robert Redford has a one-item, no-preparation, hand-held meal: All the President’s Men: Cellophane-wrapped grocery counter pastry. Brubaker: Chunk of raw…
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Steven Rea, Guest Author September 9-13
This week we welcome back Steven Rea as our guest author. Steven is the author of The Hollywood Book Club: Reading with the Stars, just out from Chronicle Books, and also Hollywood Cafe: Coffee with the…
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Smoking Noir [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]
What do you make of the cigarettes that get smoked in any Noir movie? David Lehman: Goddamn, they’re sexy. Suzanne Lummis: Sure are, and it’s clear that cigarettes had to go—no question about that—but…
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“Opening Shot”: Toward “Chapter One” [by David Lehman]
Marsh Hawk Press, under the direction of Sandy McIntosh, has launched a monthly on-line feature in which poets are asked to write up the "chapter one" of their vocations. Among those who have written…
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Four Amazing Quotes from Schopenhauer
<<<Consciousness is conditioned by the intellect, and the intellect is a mere accident of our being, for it is a function of the brain. The brain, together with the nerves and spinal cord attached…
