The Ultimate Justification for Why You Should Not Vote for Nader

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Inside the Lit Blogger's Studio

Inside the Lit Blogger’s Studio

We were never asked to participate, but Emerging Writers Forum has an interview with the bloggers up. Go check it out.

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With Polls Locked in Dead Heat, Kerry Asks Helping Hands for Aid in Swing States

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Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

[Forrest J. Ackerman] [Clive Barker] [Jessica Barone] [Charles Beaumont] [Ambrose Bierce] [Algernon Blackwood] [Robert Bloch] [Poppy Z. Brite] [Grimm Brothers] [Ramsey Campbell] [Hugh B. Cave]…

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Insomnia-Charged Roundup

Insomnia-Charged Roundup

Audrey Niffenegger confesses that she wrote the sex scenes in The Time Traveler’s Wife last. Niffenegger is also penning a a writing book called You’ll…

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Transcript of the Unedited Azzam Tape

MUFFLED VOICE: Is this thing on? AZZAM: Yessss…it iz on. I can see ze blinking red light. Do you have zee After Effects software for…

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Indonesian Monkeys at a Family Reunion, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evolution

Indonesian Monkeys at a Family Reunion, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evolution

Nature: “A new human-like species – a dwarfed relative who lived just 18,000 years ago in the company of pygmy elephants and giant lizards –…

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Literary Roundup, Or How I Learned to Stop Linking to One Thing and Love Dumping A Lotta News

Literary Roundup, Or How I Learned to Stop Linking to One Thing and Love Dumping A Lotta News

It’s never too late to stop thinking about the next Booker, particularly with Ian McEwan’s Saturday in the pipeline. Officially, the book has been completed,…

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Strangelove Week, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Subtitle

Strangelove Week, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Subtitle

Unlike other esteemed litblogs, given Dr. Strangelove‘s 40th anniversary and the Coke v. Pepsi presidential race we have to look forward to on Tuesday, I…

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I Lost My __________, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love an Unfortunate Day

I Lost My __________, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love an Unfortunate Day

Ever had a day (or several weeks) in which your life resembled a country western song? Well, I’m trying to remain positive here. But until…

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The Literary Hipster's Handbook, 2004 Q3 Edition, Or How I Learned to Stop Snickering and Love the NYTBR

The Literary Hipster’s Handbook, 2004 Q3 Edition, Or How I Learned to Stop Snickering and Love the NYTBR

“Anne Rice”: A dish tainted with hallucinogenics served at a literary function causing its eater to whine about lack of literary ability. In the worst…

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The Secret to Speed Reading, Or How I Learned to Stop Sniffing Coke and Love Sniffing Even More Coke

The Secret to Speed Reading, Or How I Learned to Stop Sniffing Coke and Love Sniffing Even More Coke

A reader writes: You recently mentioned reading the whole of Ulysses in less than an hour, and you frequently allude to the novels you read…

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The Song Remains the Same, Or How I Learned to Stop Prioritizing Just One of the Guys Behind the Screenplay and Love Peter George and Stanley Kubrick

The Song Remains the Same, Or How I Learned to Stop Prioritizing Just One of the Guys Behind the Screenplay and Love Peter George and Stanley Kubrick

“At that time, 1962 and earlier, practically all screenwriters — I would say there were about eight exceptions — were full-out hacks, completely incompetent in…

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Anticlimax

Anticlimax

NaNoWriMo starts in a few weeks. If you’re in the Cape Cod area, Laurie Higgins would like to hear from you. Gerald Hiken’s an actor…

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Yeoman

Yeoman

‘Twere it possible to pluck The grimy residue from recent oceans Or to stand resolute with sturdy sea legs Upon a foundation shaky in its…

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Fear and Loathing

Fear and Loathing

Hunter S. Thompson weighs in on the current presidential race.

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Aphorism!  Aphorism!

Aphorism! Aphorism!

Don Paterson hopes to revive the aphorism: “More than anything, the aphorism tries desperately hard to be memorable. (Of course, this is the aim of…

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The New Six Degrees of Bacon?

The New Six Degrees of Bacon?

J-Fly has a cool concept she lifted from a film teacher. Step One: Name your five favorite films off the top of your head and…

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Dale Peck Should Sue for Breach of Intellectual Property

Dale Peck Should Sue for Breach of Intellectual Property

Lionel Shriver: “Joyce Carol Oates is an atrocious writer.” When you’re pilfering the mines of histrionic snark over Joyce Carol Oates (“to call the novel…

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AM Hit & Run

AM Hit & Run

A writer mistakes a JCO blurb for junk mail. (via Galleycat) Tonight in San Francisco, there’s a memorial tribute to Jack Kerouac. The Chronicle has…

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Vote for the Slurpee

Vote for the Slurpee

As my eyes fail to flop to stage one, I find myself wondering what it’s like to be a Bush voter. How does a Bush…

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How You Like Me Now, Pinstripes?

How You Like Me Now, Pinstripes?

I told you so. How could you have doubted? Part of the problem with the so-called Sox stigma was that people weren’t willing to believe…

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One Paragraph Review

One Paragraph Review

Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is the silliest and most anticlimactic book I’ve read this year, with plodding prose, thin characters, meaningless deaths, and clunky…

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The Crimson Batter and the White House

The Crimson Batter and the White House

It’s the fifth inning. Boston is 4-0 as I write these words. Mark my words: the Sox will make it. And if the Sox make…

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Weeks Before Presidential Election, Bush Practices Waving Goodbye to White House While Accidentally Veering to His Right

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Booker Winner

Booker Winner

According to the Man Booker folks, the winner was announced 10:00 PM British Time. That was thirty minutes ago. Since no announcement has been forthcoming,…

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Because I Can't Sleep

Because I Can’t Sleep

Understatement of the week: Joyce Carol Oates, “The process of writing is something that I live with everyday.” Yardley on J.D. Salinger The Plot Against…

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New Codephrase for Remaining a Shut-In:  "Operating in the Realm of Language and Ideas"

New Codephrase for Remaining a Shut-In: “Operating in the Realm of Language and Ideas”

Terry Gross: “I think radio is a great medium for someone who�s shy and self-conscious. It terrified me at first, really badly, but once I…

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Go Sox!

Go Sox!

Holy shit!

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We're Sure That Tom Wolfe's New One Will Be "A Thick, Throbbing Sausage of a Novel"

We’re Sure That Tom Wolfe’s New One Will Be “A Thick, Throbbing Sausage of a Novel”

Janet Maslin: “Honeymoons don’t get more hellish than the one that kicks off “The Falls,” Joyce Carol Oates’s thundering, sudsy Niagara of a novel.” In…

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