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		<title>An Imagined, and Imaginative, Feast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Marie Thornburg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ann Marie Thornburg

When I recently discovered the blog 50 Watts, I fell in love instantly. The website is an exhaustive collection of book-related art and design. For someone who loves to think about the minds-eye landscapes of writers, and who also loves to get lost in the beautiful, wacky, colorful, and, above all, the inventive work of visual artists, this blog, curated by the brilliant Will Schofeld, is the ultimate feast. It is a lovely reminder of how the written and visual can work together. Neither plays a mere supporting role; instead, each medium nourishes the other in a meaningful kind of give-and-take. I encourage you to visit 50 Watts and see which pieces of book-candy tempt you the most!]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[fiction by Julia Gibson

It was the third dry year. There had been a stream once, made of snowmelt from the mountains to the north, but even the snow had been sparse the winter our coyote mother met our dad, a dog who had his own concerns. When he stopped showing up, it wasn’t because he didn’t want to, Mam said. His obligations conflicted.

That spring it only rained a time or two, and the sage covering the hills went brittle as Mam swelled with more of us than she could sustain. When the stream became a mudpath, she dug down to the damp. After a time, though, she could dig no deeper. So, coyote to the bone, she did without.

Little water made little milk. At first there were five of us wailing mewlers, but if too many latched on, the milk ran out before anyone was satisfied. Then we all were crying, and Mam worried we’d be found by somebody bent on bringing coyote numbers down to none. One after another, three pups departed for the Beyond, and then it was only Luz and me, and there was barely enough.

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		<title>The Ego Is So OVERRATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall Walker Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marshall Walker Lee

As opposed to wit, which is often just pedantic cruelty, more ingenious than funny, rarely instructive or heartening, Aphorism is, historically, a manly form, laconic, from the Spartan polis of Laconia. Spartan men were said to hold the rhetoricians and the poets in disdain; the Laconians valued bravery, austerity, and, as anyone who's seen 300 knows, a direct and very un-pedantic sort of cruelty. The first "Laconisms" come from  accounts of the Battle of Thermopylae, the bloody contest that pitted a small band Greeks and Spartans against a superior Persian force. Grotesque, frightening, often hilarious, these early Laconisms make the battle out to be a bloody lark. My favorite: when a Persian envoy sent to Sparta asks for a tribute of "some soil and water," the Spartans throw him down a well; "Dig it out yourself," they say.

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		<title>The Ideal Screen Type</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Balibrera</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gina Balibrera

In 1928, Hollywood film studio artists drew “the ideal screen type.” An amalgamation of the famous disembodied parts of Hollywood stars, the ideal screen type was doe-eyed and fair, holding her willowy arms at a coy akimbo. Beside the artists’ illustration of the composite ideal appeared the remarkable photographic image of the composite ideal’s real-life double: silent film star Anita Page. Born Anita Pomares, in Flushing, Queens, Salvadoran-American silent film star Anita Page possessed a beauty that was uncannily familiar: the eyes of Mary Pickford, the smooth white arms of Clara Bow, and the wasp waist of Bebe Daniels. Had the camera trained its lens more closely upon Anita’s exquisite nose, this shot would have recorded her beautifully-full Latina nose as well.]]></description>
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		<title>Discovering Edmond Jabès</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Konchan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Virginia Konchan

“A blank sheet is full of paths. It must each time be discovered.”]]></description>
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		<title>The Public Lives of Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Marie Thornburg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ann Marie Thornburg

Roland Barthes’s brief essay “The Writer On Holiday” was written in response to a photograph of the writer André Gide that appeared in the French daily Le Figaro. The picture, Barthes tells us, showed the French public that the writer was a) taking a vacation, and b) reading a book by another writer named “Bossuet,” at the time. Although both pieces of information might bore us, we also might be interested to know what Gide read once on vacation, and, if we are fans of Gide, we might even be compelled to seek the book out ourselves. In this way we are able to inch closer to a writer we admire and feel the thrill of reading the same pages he once read. We have probably all done this before, and been glad for the prompt to read something new. Perhaps we have even wanted to thank a favorite writer for giving us a reading tip they didn’t know they were giving.]]></description>
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		<title>MQR Announces 2011 Literary Prizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Lawrence, MQR Managing Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan Quarterly Review is pleased to announce that it has awarded this year’s trio of literary prizes to the authors of an amusing—and poignant—story about strangers in the strange land of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, an elegant poem on perspectives during a balloon flight, and a gritty poem listing the detritus of life at a Detroit high school.

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		<title>What People Are Willing To Say On The Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Major</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by A.L. Major

“The crazy thing is I’ve never been called a nigger to my face” begins Issa Rae’s blogpost. Issa Rae, for all those who do not know, is the creator, writer and star of the hit web series, “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.” In her recent article,“People on The Internet Can Be Hella Racist” Rae describes how after winning the 2012 Shorty Awards, her twitter and Facebook pages were inundated with racist comments, that ranged from horrific to downright deplorable: “I nominate @awkwardblackgirl for @shortyawards in #cottonpicking.” And then “#ThingsBetterThanAwkwardBlackGirl The smell coming from Trayvon Martin.” Most times, I’m not even sure these people are fully aware of what those words truly evoke in a historical context. These are people, who I imagine, outside of the internet are perfectly respectful to people of color, might even have friends of a darker complexion, might even have voted for Obama (Yes We CAN!), but somehow they traded in their civil decorum and decency for the internet's anonymity.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;YOU OWE ME&#8221; SELECTED FOR 2012 BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The children I write with die, no matter how much I love them, no matter how creative they are, no matter how many poems they have written, or how much they want to live. They die of diseases with unpronounceable names, of rhabdomyosarcoma or pilocytic astrocytoma, of cancers rarely heard of in the world at large, of cancers that are often cured once, but then turn up again somewhere else: in their lungs, their stomachs, their sinuses, their bones, their brains. While undergoing their own treatments, my students watch one friend after another lose legs, cough up blood, and enter a hospital room they never come out of again.

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		<title>History as Art: Luke Fowler&#8217;s  All Divided Selves </title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nicholas Johnson

Things are merging. New ideas and new art forms are arising out of the combination of elements. Video, sound, the past the present, documentary, biography, history, truth, opinion ... In a time when so much more happens than one can possibly keep up with, an increasing number of artists are obsessed with looking back for something that we missed, records and documents of formative events that we missed out on.]]></description>
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