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From the monthly archives: March 2011

Madras Press at Housing Works this Friday

On March 30, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Morning Bites: Geoff Dyer Mexican Standoff, Philip Roth Profiled, Bill Murray, And More

On March 30, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Afternoon Bites: Ponytail, New Joan Didion, and More

On March 29, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Book Porn: Chip Kidd Designs Cover for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84

On March 29, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Band Booking: The Thermals

On March 29, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

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Morning Bites: Are Friends Quixotic(?), Poetry in the Subways, A Tennessee Williams Happy Ending, and More

On March 29, 2011 By Jason Diamond

In 1979, Gary Numan asked “Are Friends Electric?” In 2011, The Paris Reviews asks if Bono is quixotic?
Poetry in Motion might make a return to New York subways. Tennessee Williams gives us a happy ending for his 100th birthday. Yippie! Elizabeth Bennet would listen to The Mountain Goats. Hole reunion! Courtney Love still looks like an Olsen twin!

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Afternoon Bites: Jewish Writer Battle Royal, King James Found, College Fiction Revisited, and More

On March 28, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Battle of the Jewish writers (by our own Jason Diamond): Ames vs. Shteyngart vs. Jonathan Safran Foer vs. every other writer in New York.
Oh, hello there, original King James Bible that just happened to be in a pile of worthless crap. At Slice: College Fiction revisited. The Portland Mercury talks with the editors of FRONT, a new publication focused on dance. Also, if you’d like to assist in the purchase of an independent bookstore, this is now possible.
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Google To Begin Beta-Testing New Death-Prediction Android App

On March 28, 2011 By Jason Diamond

By Sean Patrick Cooper

Google confirmed widespread rumors last night that it will soon launch an invitation-only beta-testing program for its controversial Android phone App, Word Count. According to a press release posted on the Google Lab Team blog, the App will make use of the Lab Team’s recently designed algorithms and a controversial piece of software known as Estimated Time of Death (ETD) to predict how many words a user has left to communicate before the user perishes and dies.
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Greatest Books I’ve Never Read #1: “On The Road”

Literary Ephemera: Modernist lit. journals from the early 20th Century

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Hillary Jordan’s “When She Woke”: A Discussion

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04/19/12: Book Release Party for Chloe Caldwell's "Legs Get Led Astray" at Book Thug Nation

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