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March 10, 2010 R.I.P. – Willie Davis (1940-2010)
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March 2, 2010 R.I.P. – Barry Hannah (1942-2010)
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February 28, 2010 Travel Photo of the Day: Brooklyn (DUMBO), New York – Literature Versus Traffic
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February 28, 2010 Conversion Tale: From Skinhead to Skullcap in Poland
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January 28, 2010 R.I.P. – J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
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January 12, 2010 Willful Misconduct: The Legal Battle Over Jack Kerouac’s Forged Will
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January 11, 2010 R.I.P. – Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)
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December 18, 2009 Sign of the Times: “Arbeit Macht Frei” Sign Over Auschwitz Gate Is Stolen
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December 16, 2009 Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse, Redux: British Woman Pleads Guilty to Loud Sex
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December 16, 2009 Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: Laredo, Texas Could Be Largest US City Without Bookstore
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December 15, 2009 Water Under the Bridges: Joshua Derr’s Photographs of DUMBO, Brooklyn
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December 8, 2009 Write & Wrong: Egypt Supreme Council Demands Return of Rosetta Stone
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December 8, 2009 Out of the Woods: Collectors Dumping Tiger Woods Memorabilia
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November 23, 2009 Good News, Bad Muse: Do Bad Moods Make for Better Writing?
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November 23, 2009 Assaying the Essay: Zadie Smith Asks “Why Do Novelists Write Essays?”
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November 22, 2009 Bill Moyers On A Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan
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November 20, 2009 Flannery O’Connor’s “The Complete Stories” Voted Best National Book Award Winner
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November 19, 2009 R.I.P. – Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009)
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November 19, 2009 Literary Review’s “Bad Sex in Fiction” Shortlist Announced: Roth, Oz, Theroux Face Stiff Competition
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November 17, 2009 Velvet Fog: Commemorating Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution (and the Lie that Launched It)
February 2012 S M T W T F S « Mar 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 - The ‘NOT-SO-ROUGH’ Guide Jerry Smolin, Blogger (Northampton, MA & DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY)
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- R.I.P. – Barry Hannah (1942-2010)
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- Conversion Tale: From Skinhead to Skullcap in Poland
- R.I.P. – J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
- Willful Misconduct: The Legal Battle Over Jack Kerouac’s Forged Will
- R.I.P. – Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)
- Sign of the Times: “Arbeit Macht Frei” Sign Over Auschwitz Gate Is Stolen
- Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse, Redux: British Woman Pleads Guilty to Loud Sex
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- Water Under the Bridges: Joshua Derr’s Photographs of DUMBO, Brooklyn
- Write & Wrong: Egypt Supreme Council Demands Return of Rosetta Stone
- Out of the Woods: Collectors Dumping Tiger Woods Memorabilia
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