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Vonnegut joins Fox News hit list

As if I didn’t loathe Fox News enough already: “By the late ’70s, Vonnegut was rich and irrelevant, the subject of other people’s books, and a sacred cow of the New York literary scene.”

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Calabash 2007

Geoffrey Philp has the skinny on the year’s Calabash International Literary Festival. Akashic, which is putting out Colin Channer’s The Girl with the Golden Shoes, will be there.

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Education in the Sunshine State

The Florida Legislature forces my alma mater to name its Department of Education after Jeb Bush (the man who can’t spell “subtle”). (Thanks, Zeebah.)

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Celebrate your high school loser self

If you’re free next Thursday, April 26, come on out to a party for When I Was a Loser, that anthology of high school essays I keep mentioning, at Lolita. Bring your yearbook (or marching band) photos. Answer nerd trivia. Win prizes. Contributors Kelly Braffet, Owen King, James P. Othmer, and I will read very brief selections from our essays. . . .

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