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It’s Time to Stop Saving Yourself: A Call for Contributors

Frankly, I don’t understand why people don’t read about books all the time. Some of the most important texts in my literary education have been written about books.

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The Reading Graveyard

I felt that pushing myself into new realms of knowledge and discipline would change me. I felt like reading and studying would turn me into someone I wanted to be. I read, therefore, with vengeance

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Matters of the Heart

“The Voyage” ends with Jon and José seated in the lobby of the border post, José in his orange, oversized sunglasses – “stunner shades” – awaiting their sentence for carrying a firearm across the Canadian Border.

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Deciphering the Bookseller’s Code

Maybe it’s an attempt at finding a community, or a store whose staff is so tailored to your tastes that their every recommendation is exactly what you need. Read This! was created for those willing to dive deeper, to find something more.

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Anarchy as a Relationship

By definition, anarchists technically don’t believe in government, class, or money, and are acutely aware of any and all repression. In a country that sings the word “patriotic” like a top ten hit and whose only true faith is capitalism, their alienation is a given.

Growth in Possibility

Eyeballs Growing All Over Me… Again Tony Rauch Eraserhead Press, 2010 Even as an unseasoned critic, MCB is aware of the pitfalls one faces when reviewing young and/or emerging writers. S/he is either…

A Poet Soars from Stage to Page

The Bones Below by Sierra DeMulder Available from Write Bloody Publishing $12 Today is your birthday. I wish you would answer my calls so I could tell you how much I wish you…

Most Definitely Not Your Mother’s Book Club: Part II

When MCB arrived at The Aster last week for June’s Books and Bars discussion, MCB had the ambition to track down moderator Jeff Kamin and ask a few questions. MCB watched from the…

Most Definitely Not Your Mother’s Book Club: Part I

Books and Bars Meeting on the second Tuesday of the month at The Aster in Minneapolis In a crowded, low-lit restaurant in Northeast, a young woman holds a microphone and gestures with her…

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Why Getting Kids to Read is Not Enough

On a slow afternoon with nothing left to read and no new tweets to get us all a twitter, it’s not that far fetched that one might find him or herself experimenting with…

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