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Geraldine R. Dodge poetry festival begins Thursday
Jacket CopyWhen the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival kicks off Thursday night, some in the crowd will remember that it almost didn't happen. The nation's largest all-poetry festival -- lasting four days, with almost 20,000 attendees -- was nearly a victim...... -
'Essays' by Wallace Shawn
Theater CriticArtists are in the business of simultaneously de-familiarizing and re-familiarizing us with the world around us. "Habit is a great deadener," Samuel Beckett explained, and art lends us a new pair of spectacles with which to view reality anew. Reading...Tags: Andre Gregory, Major League Baseball, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Noam Chomsky, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Obama's candid, uh, conversation with House Republicans and how to read it
Top of the TicketDemocratic president meets, speaks, takes questions and gives back candid replies to probably his harshest Washington critics.... -
Book calendar for the week of Feb. 9, 2009
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Toby Barlow The author of "Sharp Teeth" will present and sign his debut novel. Diesel Bookstore, 225 26th St., L.A. 3 p.m. Free. (310) 576-9960.
Norman Klein, Margo Bistis and Andrea Kratky Tom Lesser will moderate a discussion featuring the...Tags: Joan Rivers, Awards and Prizes, Walt Disney, New York City Police Department, Soups
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Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...Tags: Henry Ward Beecher, NPR, Lyndon B. Johnson, Republican Party, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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