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October 14, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Writing

Happy 69th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 69 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen

  I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing literary genius Lance Olsen for at least sixteen years now; and within…

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October 14, 2024 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Writing

Happy 68th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 68 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen

  I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing Lance Olsen for at least fifteen years now; and within that time,…

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October 14, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Writing

Happy 67th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 67 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen

  I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing Lance Olsen (for at least fourteen years now), reviewing his work, interviewing…

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October 14, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Writing

Happy 66th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 66 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen

  I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing Lance Olsen (for at least thirteen years now), reviewing his work, interviewing…

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April 15, 2019March 15, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons

“Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out…

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March 9, 2019April 4, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: An Anthology, of Sorts

Note: This was originally published November 10, 2010.   A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started…

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October 14, 2016October 14, 2016 - Uncategorized

Happy 60th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 60 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen

I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing Lance Olsen (for at least seven years now), reviewing his work, interviewing him,…

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January 21, 2016February 20, 2016 - Uncategorized

A David Bowie of Literature?

Is there a David Bowie of literature?—such an asinine question, as dumb as asking, “Is there a Virginia Woolf of…

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June 25, 2014August 29, 2023 - Archives, Uncategorized

Inverse of distraction

At the very moment the book is dematerializing, it is becoming more embodied than ever, the book celebrating the fetishization…

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June 12, 2014August 29, 2023 - Archives, Uncategorized

common place

:::: Learning to travel is another way of saying learning to read. (37) :::: For five months at the beginning…

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