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FIRST FRIDAY READING EVENT Starring Christopher Burawa, Charles Jensen, and Sean Nevin Friday, September 1Changing Hands Bookstore, TempeTime TBA Christopher Burawa is the Literature Director and Public Information Officer at the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His first book, The Small Mystery of Lapses, was published by Cleveland State University Press in spring 2006. His…
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What I’m currently TiVoing: Veronica MarsHell’s KitchenProject RunwayThe Complete Tales of the CityThe Click ListThe SimpsonsFuturama Campus LadiesThe Janice Dickinson Modeling AgencyAmerica’s Next Top ModelMXC And for those of you keeping score, tomorrow is the premiere of Project Runway‘s third season! Rumor has it Heidi’s got the preggers again. Oh, cute little preggers German model!…
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I’m reading Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica and loving it. I guess this is the year of fiction/prose for me: I’ve read more novels and essays this year than the past four years combined. Making up for lost time, etc. I like the dreamy quality of her writing, how she weaves seamlessly back and forth in time,…
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For the past several weeks I’ve been enjoying my first audiobook experience during my commute to and from work. I purchased Douglas Coupland’s novel Hey Nostradamus! because I think it was the first book of his I didn’t read and was always curious about it. I love Coupland’s work—in fact, both Microserfs and Miss Wyoming…
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A few days ago I watched Steven Soderberg’s new film Bubble, a low-budget film with no-name actors about three lonely people working in an Ohio doll factory. I’m a big fan of Soderberg’s work, but I have to say that I was a little befuddled by this offering. Although somewhat stylized to the degree that…
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I’m so pleased to reveal that I was one of the 10 finalists for the Prairie Schooner Prize this year. Although I didn’t receive the award, I was given a kind and encouraging rejection. This is probably the closest to winning I’ve come so far. It was like being close to a fire. Or, close…
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