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A voice that wasn’t hers

Poetry was Grace Paley’s first and last literary love, but she doubted the worth of her own. “I never got it, really,” she said. (Via.)

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Jim y Nuvia Ruland’s mighty Irish tamale

Jim Ruland is a writer and occasional NPR contributor, and the founder of Los Angeles’ beloved Vermin on the Mount reading series. In 2004 he attended Dublin’s centennial Bloomsday celebration, and somehow remained sober enough to write about the festivities for The Believer. Below he shares his and his wife Nuvia’s St. Patrick’s Day tradition-in-the-making: the mighty — and spicy . . .

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