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Blind Pilot & The Low Anthem, Together

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These two bands have each sep­a­rately been mak­ing inter­est­ing, beau­ti­ful folk music for years. But they just spent a cou­ple months together tour­ing the US and on the many occas­sions when all nine (or more) of them crowded their many instru­ments together on stage, the resul­tant col­lab­o­ra­tions were breath­tak­ing. Even the jos­tled, shriek-filled, audience-recorded YouTube videos can’t dull the magic.

Off-Season Travel

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A fur­nished house for Thanksgiving week on the wind-swept tip of Cape Cod for less than one day of the sum­mer cost. Even the dogs can come. This is hap­pen­ing all around us, folks, all year round. Go find the bar­gain you need and relax a bit.

Clarissa (unabridged 1st ed.)

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Look at this in a book­store and you’ll think, No way. Fourteen-hundred pages later, you’ll be won­der­ing at the lit­tle per­son you once were.

Four Saints in Three Acts

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text by Gertrude Stein, music by Virgil Thomson

Listen to it while read­ing the libretto. Words and music con­sis­tently sur­pris­ing and inven­tive but also dis­lo­cat­ing in the extreme: it’s all a joke, it’s not a joke at all.

Fictionaut​.Com

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Fictionaut is fast becom­ing one of the most inter­est­ing online repos­i­to­ries for great short sto­ries from new and estab­lished writ­ers. Though it is pri­mar­ily a venue for writ­ers to net­work and for jour­nals to engage with their read­ers, they are also post­ing fresh writer-related con­tent almost daily in the form of inter­views, fea­tures, guest blog­gers, and ultra-fresh lit news in the form of Tweets and Facebook updates.

A recent edi­to­r­ial from John Minichillo, a mem­ber of Fictionaut’s Board of Advisors, serves as a great intro­duc­tion to Fictionaut’s beau­ti­ful new world. He takes the long-view, plac­ing Fictionaut in the con­text of “an ongo­ing writer’s renais­sance” that he dates at ”about one hun­dred years.” He sees a con­flu­ence of tech­nol­ogy and events in the pub­lish­ing indus­try that have posi­tioned Fictionaut to pro­vide a plat­form for those who have “devoted (their) lives to writ­ing (to enjoy) the priv­i­lege of being read.”

Guy’s Skinny Jeans

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Sometimes we males like to show off what we got, too.

1980’s Horror Movies

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What bet­ter way to get a laugh than at peo­ple try­ing their hard­est to be serious.

Freckled Garden Slugs

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The only ben­e­fit of so much bad weather this sum­mer. Look closely, but they’re slimy and sticky. If you like that sort of thing, then go ahead and touch.

Standing Among the Giants

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I’ve read with three Pulitizer Prize win­ning authors: Franz Wright, Robert Olen-Butler and Juno Diaz. A plea­sure every time.

Literary Mamas

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I write a col­umn on “Birthing the Mother Writer” at Literary Mama and also lead a local writ­ing group for writ­ing moth­ers. I’m happy to report that after gen­er­a­tions of “Virginias” (women writ­ers who sac­ri­ficed being moth­ers and them­selves) and “Sylvias” (mother writ­ers who sac­ri­ficed them­selves), this gen­er­a­tion of mother writ­ers is alive and kicking.