Author: Alex Irvine
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UMaine New Writing Series Schedule, Spring ’09
An interesting lineup this spring, if you ignore the guy going on April 16th. 30 JAN MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI & CA CONRAD19 FEB KENNETH GOLDSMITH19 MAR STEVE GRADY AWARDS FOR CREATIVE WRITING25 MAR CLAUDIA RANKINE02 APR NADA GORDON & GARY SULLIVAN16 APR ALEXANDER IRVINE Follow the link for details about rooms and times.
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How Many of These Have You Read?
Man, the people at the Guardian are getting serious about their lists. 1000 novels I must read? Must I? And hey, Guardian staffers and editorial types: how come you use all those movie stills in a list that is (one assumes) at least in part designed to get people reading? Some great pulp book covers…
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"Listen, It’s More Important Than That"
…quoth Liverpool legend Bill Shankly when it was suggested that soccer was life and death to him. I was thinking of this because of a goofy story about the Mexican national team (with the help of Radio Shack) resorting to voodoo in an effort to break their decade-long losing streak on American soil. We’ll find…
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Ooh, Space Elevators
Maybe they won’t always just be imagined. Going up…! (Too bad the accompanying illustration is a dead link.)
Crooked House Fictions 