"Modern Tragedy"

Saturday, 25 September 2010

Modern TragedyThe crowd begins to swell.The audience takes noticeas the instruments find rhythmto perform the first opus.The bright lights slowly dimand the characters fall into placebefore the drapes separateto reveal this detailed showcase.This whimsical piece of fictionis sprinkled with pain and

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advance reader copy

Saturday, 25 September 2010

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"there's a ground invasion / (with complete color coordination)"

Wednesday, 22 September 2010

If I had been born in suburban Australia, I would have been born Darren Hanlon. I used to buy a lot of new albums a year, but Hanlon's new one is the only one I've been excited about in a while.

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what did you say / i said watt digs lute sales

Wednesday, 22 September 2010

So I had an awesome time in Ann Arbor. Elizabeth Ellen is the best host in the history of hostage. J.P. is all of us. Raviolis are good. Strawberries are a potato substitute. Plus, the reading went very well, big crowd, lots of young people. A teenage po

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hey are you in michigan

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Well, I'm going to be in Ann Arbor, Michigan soon, and so in the UMass football team apparently. What I'm going to pretend is that the football team is there for me and not to lose to the Wolverines. Why am I there? Why for the sake of Serious Literature

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"It's Bedtime"

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

It's BedtimeIt's bedtime; but for me,it's never bedtime.It's just phone down, TV off,as I examine thoughts in my head time.In the middle of the night, I love to do myself a favorand let my mind releasethe fruits of my mental laborand as they are dispersed,I pick those that I truly savorand car

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gettin up earlier, gettin burned faster

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Before cell phones, the Bible was probably the most mainstream association with "texts." "Body of work" seems totally a wrong and gentile phrase. When I think of a "body of work," what I really think of is that lady they found under a pile of her own hoa

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Eid Mubarak..

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

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i would hit you again but i need time for my rhetoric

Friday, 3 September 2010

A roofer is whining for a saw, a skill saw, a hand saw, in the most annoying way I've ever heard. People seem to have saws but seem disinclined to give him one because of his whining, more out of confusion than anger, as if his whining is so exaggerated

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Ocean Heaven 2010

Friday, 3 September 2010

English Sub AVIThe movie is about the relationship between a terminally ill man played by Li and his autistic adolescent son played by rising actor Wen Zhang. Actress Kwai Lun-Mei stars in the film as a clown who performs at the aquarium and meets the

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second place gets a set of knives

Thursday, 2 September 2010

Hey, Publishing Genius is giving away 5 copies of We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough on Goodreads. Check it out: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/5542-we-are-all-good-if-they-try-hard-enough. Also check out the giveaway for Rachel B Glaser's a

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