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  1. TEV GUEST REVIEW (AND INTERVIEW): MATTHEW SIMMONS’S CREATION STORIES

    http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2008/05/tev-guest-revie.html

    Creation Stories By Matthew Simmons Happy Cobra Books 40 pp FREE GUEST REVIEW BY JIM RULAND There's a revolution afoot. In the fast-paced, billion-dollar industry of literary chapbooks, eletronic books or making substantial inroads. That was a joke. Sort of. …

    13 hours ago
  2. THERE'S A RAT IN THE HOUSE...

    http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2008/05/theres-a-rat-in.html

    Welcome to The Elegant Variation Vermin! Most of you know me as the host of the irregular and irreverent reading series in the dark heart of L.A.'s Chinatown, Vermin on the Mount. At our most recent gathering, it was my pleasure to celebrate the publication of Harry, Revised with a small party. …

    13 hours ago
  3. TEV GUEST REVIEW (AND INTERVIEW): PAMELA ERENS’S THE UNDERSTORY

    http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2008/05/tev-guest-rev-1.html

    The Understory By Pamela Erens Ironweed Press 142 pp $11.95 GUEST REVIEW BY JIM RULAND Don’t be fooled by The Understory’s low page count or the fact that it begins at a Buddhist monastery in rural Vermont. Pamela Erens’s novel is a letter bomb of a book, pulsing with savage potency. …

    13 hours ago
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    WordWacky

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    boutiquewygf.webshoppa.mine.nu » Lazy Million Dollars Review

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    Tuesday, May 13, 2008 03:09 Lazy Million Dollars Review TEV GUEST REVIEW (AND INTERVIEW): MATTHEW SIMMONS?S CREATION STORIES GUEST REVIEW BY JIM RULAND. There's a revolution afoot. In the fast-paced, billion-dollar industry of literary chapbooks, eletronic books or making substantial inroads. That was a joke. Sort of. Electronic books are becoming an

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    TEV GUEST REVIEW (AND INTERVIEW): MATTHEW SIMMONS’S CREATION STORIES

    http://www.ceokindle.com/2008/05/13/tev-guest-review-and-int...

    But the books on Bear Parade don’t embed links in the text, still want to mimic the uninterrupted page to page flow of … Credit:

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    The Art of Finding

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    A new day at CaliforniaAuthors and a book lotto, too

    http://www.californiaauthors.com/2008/05/10/a-new-day-at-cal...

    Mark hosts the popular and often cheeky litblog, The Elegant Variation. Along with chronicling the latest book news, Mark likes to write about the ins and outs of getting a first book published, even managing to make the arrival of his copyedited manuscript into a lively blog item that drew a slew of reader comments. “TEV has always been intended as a place for serious conversation about literary matters and was never meant to promote my book,” he says,

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    Overdue Round-Up Rag

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    What foes the MFA industry mean for writing in the long term? Bruce Sterling gives a fascinating talk about design in science fiction, and what it means for how we write. Philip Roth gets the roasting treatment Genre vs. Big Ideas NPR shorts does a reading of Philip K. Dick's "Beyond Lies the Wub"

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    Wordstock 2008 Is Mark Sarvas

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    Small Space

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    Blographia Literaria

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    —from a couple of years before the 2007 clash where Sarvas posted Gessen's private correspondence—is itself reeking of bile, but read the response to it by an n+1 supporter and then especially read the long comment by "Citoyen Fantomas" to get what I'm talking about. It's really quite incredible. More (5/4): I don't have very much more to say about Sarvas and that put-upon air bloggers get when they see their name in print not fixed between two compliments or as

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