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• Happy Veterans Day

  
  Weaponized Culture — Authority:
  First and foremost, I would like to thank all those men and women who have served or are currently serving in the military. We would remiss not to also acknowledge the service of the Intelligence Community. It was not too long ago that the CIA put its 90th star on its Memorial Wall in honor of fellow Floridian ...
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  The Frugal Chariot — Authority: 119
  Sinclair Lewis"What Mr. Lewis has done for myself and thousands of others is to lodge a piece of a continent in our imagination."- E. M. ForsterSinclair Lewis is perhaps best known for his many novels: including Main Street, Babbit, Arrowsmith and others. But he wrote many stories throughout his career of which he ...
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• Darkly Dreaming Dexter

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 108
  Darkly Draeming Dexter is the first in Jeff Lindsay’s series of Dexter novels that have since been adapted into a successful TV series. The novel (and indeed all subsequent novels) are, on the one hand, straightforward whodunnits, but with one rather ingenious difference. Dexter, a police department pathologist, ...
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• For Those Who Would Change the Wind

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 424
  Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 Essayist, Poet, Philosopher "America is another name for opportunity."
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• Is Jonathan Lethem Courting a 2009 Bad Sex Award With These Lines From ‘Chronic City’?

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 427
  Later this month the Literary Review will announce the winner of its annual Bad Sex award, intended to “draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description … and to discourage it” in modern literary novels. Last year the judges gave the main prize to Rachel ...
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• Poetry Community Questions All Over the Map

  
  poeta y diwata: barbara jane reyes blogs here — Authority: 464
  Something Susan Schultz wrote in her response to my indie publishing questions has me thinking.My frustration at the moment comes of the fact that no publisher can demand her customers read the press as well as its authors. So the conversations we mean to get going are sometimes overlooked when people buy only work by ...
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• Tree of Smoke.

  
  The dish — Authority: 110
  I know the site’s been flaky today. The server is fine but Wordpress is hanging up and I’ve had to have hosting company restart it twice. I’ll be on Mike & Mike in the Morning on Wednesday at 7:40 am EST, after which, I’m going on vacation for a week, so this will probably be the last post here till ...
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• All the Words to the Baseball Poem ‘Casey at the Bat,’ Free and Online

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 427
  Okay, parents, here’s my annual reminder: If you want to get the kids interested in poetry, turn off the TV during the seventh-inning stretch and read Ernest L. Thayer’s brief classic baseball poem, “Casey at the Bat.” You’ll find a good, free, legal and complete version on this page of the site for the ...
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• Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 108
  Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story  by Paul Auster is so short that it feels like something of a cheat including it on this list at all. In fact, unless I keep this review relatively short it runs the risk of being longer than the book itself. Well, not quite, but you get the idea! I’ve read a fair bit of Paul ...
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• A "Witch" So Rare Its Scary

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 500
  Yes, some water-stains; its a maritime novel, whatd you expect? This copy, apparently, skimmed the seas . Some days I wake up lucky. I now have before me one of the great rarities in American literature, the true first edition of James Fenimore Cooper ’s The Water Witch . Published no later than September ...
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• Flare

  
  Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities — Authority: 454
  a new artists’ book by Thomas Nozkowski and Cole Swensen co-published by Yale University Art Gallery & Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library The Beinecke Library is pleased to announce the publication of Flare, the culminating project of the 2007–2008 collaborative Artist and Poet in Residence Program ...
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• [239] Surprising Myself – Christopher Bram

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 423
  “It frightened me because Corey was a guy. I wanted to protect it because such a love was so ridiculous and fragile. Love was for marriage, and I couldn’t marry Corey . . . I couldn’t distinguish the excitement of my fear from the excitement of love.” [61] Joel Scherzenlieb grows up at a time given to ...
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• Revolutionary Road.

  
  The dish — Authority: 110
  I’ll be on 1080 the Fan in Portland Oregon tonight around 5:40 local time, and on AllNight with Jason Smith in the small hours. Tomorrow I’ll be on the Herd at 12:10 pm EDT. Look for my World Series preview piece on ESPN.com around midday. – Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road , which made the TIME 100, ...
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• PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series 11/07/09

  
  poeta y diwata: barbara jane reyes blogs here — Authority: 464
  Please join us for the next reading in the PAWA Arkipelago Reading SeriesWhere: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San FranciscoWhen: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2:00 pmWho: Writers Justin Chin, Sarah Gambito, and Marianne Vilanueva. Musical guests Myrna del Río and Bo Razon.This event is free ...
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• The Gathering Storm (Hardcover)

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 144
  The Gathering Storm (Hardcover)…
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• [237] Fixer Chao – Han Ong

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 423
  “I had entered this world of privilege where the people had taken me in as one of their own, and had been entirely comfortable divesting themselves of ugly things in my presence. These people, in my imagination, lived in a glass bubble filled with money, aerated and sent flying in all directions.” [100] Never ...
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• Philip Roth: The novel is screwed in the era of the screens

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown asked esteemed author Philip Roth , in this Vimeo video , about the future of the novel. Basically, Roth says, the novel is screwed.  Not even the Kindle can save the novel, because it has to compete against all those screens: first the movie screen, the TV screen, and now the ...
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• Reading in Spanish (Neruda’s Poetry and La casa en Mango Street by Cisneros)

  
  Rebecca Reads — Authority: 416
  Pablo Neruda’s early poetry (specifically, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair ) does not have much to do with Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street . Neruda was an Argentine who wrote love poetry (in Spanish) in the early 1900s at the age of 20. Hispanic-American Sandra Cisneros wrote in the 1980s a ...
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• Doomed He Was

  
  biblioklept — Authority: 120
  Image of Poe by Edward McKnight Kauffer, via A Journey Round My Skull So, instead of grading essays like I should’ve today, I reread D. H. Lawrence’s essay on Edgar Allan Poe , collected in the former’s incomparable Studies in Classic American Literature . Lawrence asserts that Poe is “absolutely ...
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• The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread.

  
  The dish — Authority: 110
  The title of Don Robertson’s The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread may make you think it’s the story of Matt Wieters, but it’s actually a remarkable coming-of-age novel set in Cleveland in 1944 on the day of the Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion . The protagonist, nine-year-old Morris Bird III, decides to ...
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