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Best look of surprise, #473

Official White House e-mail improperly sent via RNC accounts may be “lost” (a word that evidently didn’t make the administration’s list of newly forbidden euphemisms).

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Against readings, 2007

The literary reading, charges Mik Awake, “overlooks the single most important commodity in any literary transaction: a reader’s voice.”

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R.I.P. (my beloved) Kurt Vonnegut

No doubt you’ve heard. The great Kurt Vonnegut is dead. 84 years old, brain injuries from a fall, and he’s gone. Twenty dollars says even — maybe especially — Dale Peck is mourning today. Perhaps, as he insists repeatedly in Timequake, things will be better when he’s dead; perhaps his followers will stop searching his books for some clue as . . .

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