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Sitting in the darkness waiting for something to burst – Rachel Barenblat
In my post about Dave Bonta's poems a few days ago I mentioned Qarrtsiluni, the literary journal which Bonta co-edits (with Beth Adams of The Cassandra Pages.) The journal's name comes from an Iñupiaq…
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Pink Sky Tonight and Emily Dickinson [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Bleaders, How are you? Like most bloggers or writers of anything but letters, I don't know who's reading me, but I sort of pretend I do, starting from anyone who has ever…
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Music for fall – Rachel Barenblat
As soon as autumn weather settles in, I find myself tuning my iPod in the car to Värttinä. There's something about their tight (and sometimes dissonant) harmonies and their often-complex rhythms (who else writes…
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Dave Bonta’s utilitarian odes – Rachel Barenblat
Dave Bonta is prolix. He posts a lot of poems to his blog, Via Negativa. (Here's one from this week: October dusk.) He also podcasts. And he's author of the recently-published Odes to Tools…
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Don Draper Fan Club Rankings [by Jane Mahlzeit]
Jane Mahlzeit of Duke University has released the unofficial tally of Don Draper Fan Club members ranking the ladies with whom Don has enjoyed conjugal relations in descending order of fugworthiness: MeganRachel Menkin the…
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GREIL MARCUS AND DYLAN (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
What is this gold? This is Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus Writings 1968-2010 (PublicAffairs), a just-published treasure trove of the author's indispensable riffs on America's enigmatic musical legend. As the most interesting writer about…
