Archive for September, 2008

Ransom Center fellowships

UT’s Ransom Center is accepting applications for its 2009-2010 research fellowships in the humanities. About 50 are awarded annually.

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The Smart Set: Lauren Cerand’s weekly events

The Smart Set is a weekly feature, compiled and posted by Lauren Cerand, that usually appears Mondays at 12:30 pm, and highlights the best of the week to come. Special favor is given to New York’s independent booksellers and venues, and low-cost and free events. Please send details to Ms. Cerand at lauren [at] maudnewton.com by the Thursday prior to . . .

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City of Refuge tonight

You wouldn’t know it from the news, but Baton Rouge took a beating last week. (In hurricane sympathy, see Tom Piazza read at Half King tonight.)

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Robert Giroux passes on

R.I.P. Robert Giroux, publisher of O’Connor and Gaddis, editor of Paley, Porter, and Barthelme, and donator of the “G” in FSG.

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