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Last night at KGB Bar [by Julia Cohen]
The KGB reading last night spotlighted Danielle Pafunda and Carline Knox, both recently published by two independent presses whose books I’m always looking out for: Bloof Books and Wave Books. Before reading from My…
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“Lydia Davis Thrives, We Thrive” [by Angela Patrinos]
Lydia Davis Thrives, We Thrive If you want to pack the house, invite Lydia Davis. The prose poets claim her, the fictionists claim her, and the translators show up to give her a cold,…
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The World’s Largest Book [Don Share]
The audience for "serious books . . . really doesn’t want to be marketed to. But if you don’t market to them, they don’t know what to read." – Sara Nelson, editor in chief…
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“‘History, history! We fools, what do we know or care?’” (quote by WCW, post by Laura Orem)
"You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is." – William Faulkner "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable Man must be of…
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Pure poetry [by Mitch Sisskind]
I'm not against gun ownership but I do think it should be as hard to buy a gun as it is to buy a car — and the last time I bought a car…
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“Passing Unmarked” [by Laura Cronk]
Passing Unmarked She worries about a horse charging past.She would be able to stand as it approached,the earth changing fast under its hooves,the body slick, enormous.She wouldn't flinch. But even if she thought in…
