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The Audacity of Depression
by Joe Bageant
"One of the best things about the hundred or so book festivals in America is that, with luck, a writer can manage to get drunk with some of his or her readers. And with more luck, the readers pick up the tab. Bear in mind that 90% of all real writers, people for whom writing is their sole income, spend much of their time counting their change in the rest room of the hotels where they are being put up while on tour. Believe me, there are better rackets than writing."
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Three Poems by Elizabeth Kate Switaj
"these crystals to congeal
in six-point feathers from sky require
something to cling to
to be called beautiful by you"
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Throwing Puppies
by Alexios Antypas
"We weren't losers, we weren't high, and until that very moment, not one of us had shown any inclination to excess. It was just one of those things you don't ever want to try to fully explain: Marin picks up the puppy and hurls it towards the ravine."
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Science in Contemporary Fiction: Variations on a Theme by Richard Powers
by James Chaffee
"I understand that few readers will make these objections. That is what worries me, that Powers reinforces for these readers the mythological one-dimensional viewpoint of how physics works or mathematics works, along with the one-dimensional nerds who create this work. And nothing could be farther from the truth."
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Four Songs by Ike Snopes
Crystal guitar picking and vibrant distortions give this record the dream quality of an Oak tree limb growing into the vista of your cliff-side view of the sunset. The lyrics are coated in liquid bass lines that drip wax sarcasm all over your hippie candle. You will kick your beads and your girlfriend will ask "What's wrong?" and you will rock out because I'm for damn sure your weed is better than mine.
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Six Images with Essays by Adrian Kenyon
Adrian Kenyon attended Salendine Nook secondary school, where he failed to recognize authority and experienced a major breakthrough regarding rebellious tendencies. He then attended Huddersfield new College and Aston University. Twenty-four hours after graduating, he started work on a demolition site with some bikers.
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ALSO IN VISUAL ART: Nine Photographs by J. A. Spahr-Summers
Sick Men
by Michael Medaglia
Now that Americans have all "voted" in the Democratic and Republican primaries by drunkenly shouting the name of their preferred candidate to the employee at the drive-through, it's time to get down to the real business of electing a President.
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