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Recent acquisitions: Dark Wild Realm, Michael CollierThe Prayers of Others, David KeplingerHoney, Richard CarrMexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, C. M. Mayo, ed. I attended a bilingual reading by the Mexican poet David Huerta last week as well, and was fortunate enough to meet the editor of Mexico’s most significant poetry publication, Periódico de poesia. I
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Alexander Chee posted this on Facebook: a capitalist response to the #amazonfail debacle. Yes, taking gay books—or any books—off the rankings list seriously limits how many will sell, but isn’t it up to the bookseller to decide what the market wants, what it will sell and how it will sell it? (More behind the link.)
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Because I am often slow to get to the movies lately, I just finally saw Twilight this weekend. You may recall that I tried reading the book some months ago and found it annoying, poorly written, dull, and all-around ridiculous (even barring vampires). I only read half of it and then regifted it as a
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I’ve been busy lately. Busy-busy. So busy, in fact, I have almost no time to read my personal email (much less read it closely). So when a friend of mine mentioned he’d made reservations for a group of us for Wednesday night of DC’s restaurant week, I dutifully got all bundled up last night, timed
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My poet readers will agree that the barter system is one of our primary business transactions: we publish a poem, we get a copy of the journal; we publish a book, we get some free copies in lieu of an advance; we want to buy someone else’s book, we offer to trade our own. Although
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LOST returns tonight! I got season 4 for Christmas this year and already caught myself up on the past season, since it was such a short (but intense!) one. I like the turn the show has taken in terms of how the narrative is unfolding. I think the writers had to do something like that
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