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I was just thinking on Sunday how sort of tragic it was that the chapbook was such a quickly-expiring literary form. And then this arrived in my email today: SEVEN KITCHENS PRESS is excited to announce a new chapbook series: the ReBound Series will further expand our mission to bring new and/or underappreciated writers to
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The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon by Charles Jensen (New Michigan Press, 2007) New Michigan Press, 2007 Unlike the Octopus authors, Charles Jensen doesn’t play mind games with the artificial distinctions among categories. Rather, he creates a collage from bits and pieces of various genres in the service of a real, honest-to-god narrative. Of course,
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LOS ANGELES—The passage of Prop 8 in California has given rise to an anti-marriage backlash among gays and lesbians in the state and across the country. On Saturday, prominent gay activist group ACTOUT! held a press conference outside that city’s courthouse to declare war on the institution of “traditional” marriage. “If tradition is what they
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I got a signed contract back in the mail today, so… Here goes. My first full-length poetry collection will be published by Lethe Press early in 2009. Tentative title (aka what I’m calling it this week): The First Risk
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Silver Spring, MD—A local man has created a significant media buzz simply by—finally—finishing a book he’d been reading. Charles Jensen of Silver Spring recently declared triumphantly, “Oh my god!” as he set down his slightly worn copy of National Book Award nominee Joshua Ferris’s novel Then We Came to the End. “I felt like I’d
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I sort of reluctantly bought the new Keane album despite two overwhelmingly negative experiences: 1. Their last album was really disappointing, and2. They got a poor review from Blender magazine, whose reviews I mostly trust. But after sampling a few of the songs and knowing Keane were moving over toward the Killers-esque synth sounds of
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