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The icing storm

Rick Moody throws a pie at a good-natured Dale Peck, for charity. (Peck has called Moody “the worst writer of his generation.”)

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Alternate uses for blank sheets of paper

These images of sculptor Peter Callesen’s paper cuts have been floating around the Internet for a while, but they’re new to me. Many of his smaller works appear to be made from, essentially, single sheets of printer paper. My friend Kellie is partial to the Día de los Muertos style pieces, and “that crazy Tim Burton tower” (below). Me too, . . .

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Inside VQR rejections

“A bawdy limerick? Really?” Virginia Quarterly Review posts some in-house notes on rejected submissions. (See also.)

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