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In Memory of Carol Troxell, Former Owner of the New Dominion Bookshop [by Nin Andrews]
As I stated in my previous post, I am going to be doing a series of blog posts in honor of those who help make others’ literary lives possible, and even wonderful at times. I…
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The Star-Makers [by Nin Andrews]
Lately I’ve been thinking about how my father used to say, There’s no such thing as the self-made man. Think about it. It was one of my father’s ongoing arguments with the world, with…
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Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration: León Salvatierra (translation by Javier O. Huerta)
painting by Hugo Palma-Ibarra Upon Returning From To the North, by León Salvatierra(translation by Javier O. Huerta) When I fled Nicaraguawas alone. The young ones had departedor had disappeared, the young ones. Womenelders had left,…
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Fragments 42-49 [by Alan Ziegler]
“Alan Ziegler, Author of Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” A lone white horse wags its tail on the outskirts of Chamoux… Sealed condom in the pocket of jacket inherited from my father. After…
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The Best Small Space Style: An American in Paris [by Stacey Lehman]
When you live in a tiny apartment, as I did when I first moved to NYC, it seems that much of your thinking is devoted to how to make the best use of the…
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Welcome, Spring (as imagined in August) [by David Lehman]
"It Might As Well Be Spring": Hammerstein's best lyric. Note the similes. The perfect song for Dick Haymes. Rodgers explained the music by saying that it depended on the movement of a puppet on…
