Month: May 2006

May 19, 2006

>The Brief History of the Dead

>by Kevin Brockmeier Imagine a world in which everyone but you has read a particular book. Each reader has crossed over into an alternate…
May 18, 2006

>French, Spanish, What’s the Diff?

>A friend of mine, Don, teaches high school Spanish. I see him at the gym from time to time and today he told me…
May 17, 2006

>How A Book Saved Me

>Roy Kesey Week continues over at The Elegant Variation. Be sure and check out the Nothing in the World Contest. Here’s my entry: You’re…
May 16, 2006

>A diversion: George* *be sure to use your mouse to drag and drop Thanks for the link, Kathy!
May 15, 2006

>Lalami Shortlisted for Caine Prize

>Laila Lalami (she of MoorishGirl.com) has been shortlisted for the 2006 Caine Prize for her story “The Fanatic,” a chapter in her novel/collection Hope…
May 15, 2006

>Roy Kesey Week at TEV

>It’s Roy Kesey week over at the excellent litblog, The Elegant Variation. Roy is wandering around the U.S. this week promoting his book (which…
May 15, 2006

>Getting Traction

>My first reaction to Sven Birkerts’s introduction to Agni 63 was—what a pompous piece of . . . How dare he reject anyone’s story…
May 14, 2006

>Steve Almond takes a stand

>Please read Steve Almond’s open letter in The Boston Globe in which he resigns his teaching position at Boston College in protest over the…
May 12, 2006

>Grouse

>To complain, to grumble; a cause for complaint. But, also, a chicken-like bird of the pheasant family. And I have to ask, why was…
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