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Day: August 29, 2005

Jamelah Reads the Classics: Troilus and Cressida

Jamelah Earle August 29, 2005 3 Comments

My quest to read the classics continues, this time with everybody’s favorite literary enigma. That’s right, I’m talking about Shakespeare, the writer people like to say wasn’t Shakespeare at all, but rather, a blind, lyre-playing Greek who — wait, now I’m getting confused with Homer.

But then, it’s easy … Read the rest

A Poet Goes To Crawford

Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein August 29, 2005 6 Comments

Long Island poet and friend of LitKicks George Wallace recently travelled to Crawford, Texas to hand a poem to antiwar protestor Cindy Sheehan. He sent us this report of his journey:

1. HOLDING DOWN THE FORT

It sneaked up on me really.

I do think that what a person does … Read the rest

Reviewing the Review: August 28 2005

Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein August 29, 2005 9 Comments

I don’t know if young author Chelsea Cain is ready to write for the NY Times Book Review yet. “He peppers his colorful tale with words like ‘rigmarole’ and ‘mawkish'”, she tells us in reviewing Jeffrey Ford’s The Girl in the Glass. Golly gee! This type of uncharacteristic lameness … Read the rest

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Day: August 29, 2005

Jamelah Reads the Classics: Troilus and Cressida

A Poet Goes To Crawford

Reviewing the Review: August 28 2005

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