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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Literary Boroughs #25: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Boroughs
Tagged American Dervish, Anodyne, Ayad Akhtar, Boswell Book Company, cream city review, Fuel Cafe, Furrow, Harley-Davidson, John Goulet, Lauren Fox, Lesley Kagan, Literary Boroughs, Milwaukee, Mt. Mary College, Pauls Toutonghi, Red Weather, Still Life With Husband, the Fonz, UW-Milwaukee, Whistling in the Dark, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Yvette in America
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It’s Just Like TV, But Without the Bodies
“But,” I said, “I once heard something that I trust. Leontius, the son of Aglaion, was going up from the Piraeus under the outside of the North Wall when he noticed corpses lying by the public executioner. He desired to … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged David Stuart MacLean, Hikkaduwa, James Frey, Mike Daisey, Plato, The Republic, This American Life
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Roundup: Scary, Creepy, Dead, and Haunting Posts
As we look forward to updating the Ploughshares blog for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain … Continue reading
Posted in Roundups
Tagged Akshay Ahuja, Andrew Ladd, Christine Sneed, Peter B. Hyland, Roundup
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New Ploughshares Solo Published: All of Us, We All Are Arameans by Eileen Pollack
We’re excited to announce the fourth addition to our innovative eBook series, Ploughshares Solos (formerly Pshares Singles): “All of Us, We All Are Arameans” by Eileen Pollack. Our past Pshares Singles include “Lady of the Burlesque Ballet” by Timothy Schaffert, … Continue reading
Fall Staff Round-Up: Now with 8.3% more beard
Happy Fall! The staff of Ploughshares has been busy frolicking in the beautiful autumnal weather, and collecting new staff members the way the Pied Piper collects children (but with 100% less missing children/interns). Since we have a permanent office staff of … Continue reading
Posted in Ploughshares News, Roundups
Tagged beards, book deal, fall, interns, John Holt, literary magazine, ploughshares staff
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Dear Dr. Poetry
The Revolution Happened And You Didn’t Call Me Maged Zaher TinFish Press, September 2012 67 pages $15.00 Dear Dr. Poetry, I’ve been occupying Wall Street continuously since September 2011. Since we lost Zuccotti Park, I’ve been sneaking into Goldman Sachs’ … Continue reading
An Interview With Aurora Anaya-Cerda, Founder of La Casa Azul Bookstore
In an age where bookstores are closing, independent bookseller and former middle-school teacher Aurora Anaya-Cerda opened the doors of La Casa Azul Bookstore, in East Harlem, last June. I first heard about La Casa Azul through some of my online … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers, Interviews
Tagged Aurora Anaya-Cerda, bookstores, Casa Azul, East Harlem, Junot Diaz, literary community
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Literary Boroughs #24: Richmond, Virginia
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
THAT LIT, LIT LIFE (with global characteristics) 8 (of 14)
My aspiration in life is to loaf. These days, life seems to be much ado about aspiration, or so the brand-marketing-image-makers would have us believe. We aspire to fame (and living forever, as that song goes) and wealth, stardom for … Continue reading
Weekly Roundup: Revision
As we look forward to updating the Ploughshares blog for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our weekly roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a … Continue reading
Posted in Roundups
Tagged Carol Keeley, Christine Sneed, Eric Weinstein, Jamie Quatro, Revision, Thomas Lee, Werner Herzog
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