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Milestone w/ Bruised Chompers + I’m Reading This Week

Today marks my third, smoke-free month–I quit over spring break this past semester–and in honor of the milestone I received in the mail a nice little gift from my buddy Gerald, currently on a West Coast excursion: an empty pack of Taiwanese, Longlife cigarettes, complete with duel warning labels depicting a mother and child dying [...]

Yay. Boo.

Two intriguing surprises today. 1) Short Stack, the WaPo’s blog about books and writing, has apparently expanded its content to include something other than innocuous top five lists, and 2) part of that content included this recent bit of publicity about Syntax DC, a possible “communal space” for DC writers–not unlike the Brooklyn Writers’ Space, [...]

Monday Time Wasting: Bookfalling, BigBearing, Literary Vulgarity in Baltimore, and Tiki Barber Goes Head-to-Head With Salman Rushdie.

It’s a lit-y couple of weeks, apparently. Readings and book festivals are spread across the DC/VA/MD area like a thin, delicious film of literary mayonnaise (or something), which is exciting if you’re me but kind of grating and awkward if you’re my wife. Either way, I’m a little late to give a good preview of [...]

Links for Monday Time Wasting: Overdue People I Know Edition, 9/8

The last few weeks have been pretty hectic, and during this time a bunch of people that I know have made some things happen. So mixed in with your standard links to everything under the sun, some long overdue news about my acquaintences accomplishments. Nice, right?
Congrats to person I know and DC-deserter Ryan Call, who [...]