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I want to compile a list of the AWP goodies & events our readers can look for. I will kick it off by mentioning that the PANK / Annalemma / Mud Luscious Press  off-site reading will be 2.3 @ 7 pm & features readings by Molly Gaudry, Amber Sparks, Sasha Fletcher, Matt Bell, Mathias Svalina, & others. & at [...]

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I can’t remember what it was that made me first pick up The New York Trilogy, but something about the austere, cold cleverness of the book appealed to me. I became a fan pretty much overnight, and have read just about everything he has done since then. Which is a lonely furrow for anyone to [...]

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Alexandra Chasin, Teresa Carmody and me have been developing a Google Earth-piece involving a series of text deformations. Put another way, we have appropriated the world’s most popular mapping and modeling software for our own nefarious creative purposes. Teresa needs to miss our show at the New School on May 3, and while we have [...]

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http://andnowfestival.com/ &Now Festival of New Writing: Tomorrowland Forever! Submission deadline: April 12, 2011. OCT. 13 – 15, 2011 @ UCSD &NOW is a festival of fiction, poetry, and staged play readings; literary rituals, performance pieces (digital, sound, and otherwise), electronic and multimedia projects; and intergenre literary work of all kinds, including criti-fictional presentations and creatively [...]

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  I’m writing with my regrets that I’ll be taking my leave from Big Other.  I was a peripheral character at most, but I need to take some time to focus on some other priorities in my life. I’ll still be commenting and trying to keep up with the book club schedule, but not initiating [...]

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How many stories pop into your head when you look at this picture? I saw this photo in a collection of abandoned WWII bunkers (the Coolist shares my obsession with abandoned spots and buildings) and I can’t turn off the flow of mental pictures and storylines. Such a rich image. I think abandoned spaces suggest [...]

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Today, inspired by Andrew James Weatherhead’s now removed post at htmlgiant, I had a conversation on gchat with Mike Kitchell about privacy, gossip, and gays.  Below is the unedited transcript of said chat.  Cross-posted to htmlgiant. Mike: man did you pay attention at all to this post on htmlgiant where andrew posted like anonymous quotes [...]

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POLESTAR POETRY SERIES’ I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT AWP SUN JAN 30 / 4 PM BRUAR FALLS 245 GRAND ST / WILLIAMSBURG READINGS BY: MARISA CRAWFORD NATE PRITTS MATTHEW L. ROHRER MELISSA STEIN CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER ANDREW JAMES WEATHERHEAD DJ JASON DIAMOND (VOL . 1 BROOKLYN) + WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE

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I’ve been feeling pretty productive lately. This morning I had an idea for a story, and managed to do some edits on a video for a friend before leaving for work.  Last weekend I sketched out a very, very rough outline for the novel I haven’t started. I sent out my first manuscript (chapbook manuscript) [...]

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Listen: For better or worse I read a ton of books, & I am treated to the growth of presses, the sophomore-slump of authors, the brush of writers with greatness & the heavy sink of a hole in a book that opens & will not shut up again. So when you read what is a [...]

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