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Entries from April 2007

A Literary Adventure

Bolaño, Roberto

April 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Never having been one for bandwagonry (after all, the bumper’s too high for me to jump, and I don’t have much in the way of carnival skills from which is allegedly derived the phrase), but it can’t be helped: if everybody and their thrice-removed step-great-uncle

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Nobody in Hollywood

Bausch, Richard

April 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

If I were a state fair judge offering blue ribbons after thoroughly scrutinizing the stories that have been read to you to-date, tonight’s would be a heavy competitor for Most Gut-Bursting Opener in American Short Fiction, specifics of which, there’s nobody can offer sympathy like me. And I’m pitting this as the prizewinning hen against [...]

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Two Gentle People

Greene, Graham

April 2nd, 2007 · 7 Comments

Riding the big train today and started to daydream, in the daydreamy style of reductive logic unique to the accompaniment of a train horn, the subject which was What I Might Read to the Internet Tonight.

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