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New Ugresic essays

Dubravka Ugresic’s Nobody’s Home, an essay collection, is out from Open Letter today. BOMB has a (print-only) excerpt.

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Randa Jarrar and the great line of crazy hos

Spinoff from Hurricane Gustav didn’t dampen the turnout at Randa Jarrar’s Bluestockings reading a few weeks ago. The more the rain and wind picked up, the more packed the place became. Eventually I think people were standing. In person Randa is every bit as vivacious and smart and funny as you’d expect if you follow her blog, Rockslinga — where . . .

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