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The Underground New York Public Library

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21 Guns: A Salute

  1) Poetry, my brother tells me, is too human for him. When he reads poetry he always feels like…

Permutations of Early Morning Thoughts

1.                   I spend a fair amount of my time enjoying the…

The Value of Novelists

The sign at the BF Goodrich on the corner of Turk and Larkin in Downtown San Francisco said it all….

Ticker Tape

In our third and final installment of Aidan Koch’s series on alternative eReaders, we have perhaps the most inconvenient of all. This non-existent…

Murakami, Mo Yan, and Western Odds on Eastern Lit

  The British gambling company Ladbrokes recently released odds that predict a Nobel Prize for Japanese novelist and Occidental love-affair,…

“Kiss*Punch*Poem”

This Saturday night, Magnet Theater feature piece “Kiss*Punch*Poem,” the year-old brain child of poet Meghann Plunkett and theater co-owner Alex…

“Unburdening the Ten-Year-Old Soul”

Yesterday, The Atlantic posted an article by Robert Pondiscio entitled, “How Self-Expression Damaged My Students.” Pondiscio offers an interesting, if…

Childish at Best: Naturalism on the Wane

  Analytic philosophy rarely relates to culture at large. But one trend provides insight into how bone-dry epistemology or metaphysics…