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Does anybody have my Ram Dass? [By Steven Rea]
You know how you lose books, lend books, spill a pot of coffee on books, slip books into Little Libraries around town, put books on the sidewalk in a box marked “Free!” — never…
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My Trouble with Optimism and an Interview with Shara McCallum (by Nin Andrews)
Lately, I have been having trouble with optimism. And I have been having trouble with my trouble with optimism. I am, quite simply, depressed. I'm not even sure of the role of poetry anymore—both in…
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From Pity to Wisdom to Coercion [by Lionel Trilling]
<<< Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the object of our…
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TITLE WAVE [By Steven Rea]
Ever write a poem, a story, a novel (hundreds of them, right?), and find yourself, at the end, in the throes of epic indecision, stymied and desperate to come up with the right title?…
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Squibs 327-333 [by Alan Ziegler]
327: My socks do match—they’re just not identical. 328: Two movies in which Robert Redford has a one-item, no-preparation, hand-held meal: All the President’s Men: Cellophane-wrapped grocery counter pastry. Brubaker: Chunk of raw…
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Steven Rea, Guest Author September 9-13
This week we welcome back Steven Rea as our guest author. Steven is the author of The Hollywood Book Club: Reading with the Stars, just out from Chronicle Books, and also Hollywood Cafe: Coffee with the…
