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Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace + etc.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

“I’m an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.” – A beautifully recursive DFW, looping at his most lovably convoluted (When we read him we got lost in those convolutions, spread them out and wrapped ourselves up inside of them, we convolved ourselves, kernel-like, across their soft surfaces. [...]

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The Divine Comedy – by Dante Alighieri

Monday, June 11, 2012

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri If you’re going to take a look at Jack Spicer’s The Heads of the Town Up to the Aether, there are worse places to start…

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Revolution a Reader – review soon on The Rumpus

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Effluvians are proud to announce that we will be doing a couple of reviews for the amazing lit site The Rumpus. Kevin is wrangling Revolution a Reader (Publication Studio) and Lizzy is reviewing a new title from Graywolf. We’re psyched to become involved in this banging literary website and look forward to a continued relationship [...]

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Indie Booksellers / Micropublishing Series in the Works!

Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Effluvians are planning a series on micropublishing and indie booksellers (street, retail and otherwise) that’s sure to tickle your bibliophile circuits! Expect interviews with Book Thug Nation (NYC), Family (LA) and Microcosm Publishing! We are excited to echo what these folks are up to and look forward to beginning the series with a BTN [...]

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Boredumb

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Insert boring image here… “The only horrible thing in the world is ­ennui.” – Oscar Wilde “There is nothing so troublesome as that one has nothing to trouble one.” – Thomas Gray Boredom Noun the state of being bored; tedium; ennui. the state of being weary and restless through lack of interest Origin: 1850–55; bore2 [...]

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