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  • A literary moonscape<\/a> by Guy Laram\u00e9e.<\/li>\n
  • More amazing book art: a visit to Quebec\u2019s Garden of Decaying Books<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cA hundred and twenty five years ago, Oscar Wilde edited a fashion magazine, his first and only office job. We have yet to learn from the experience.\u201d LARB<\/a> on Wilde\u2019s day job. <\/li>\n
  • For the first four decades of competition, the Olympics awarded official medals for painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and music, alongside those for the athletic competitions. <\/li>\n
  • If you\u2019re in Boston this weekend, enjoy the Dog Day Poetry Marathon<\/a>, featuring Dorothea Lasky, Jim Behrle, and Eileen Myles (among many others). <\/li>\n
  • \u201cAs he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, the tiny deodicids burrowing into his follicles to eat the greasy sebum therein, each female laying up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, causing inflammation, whether the eyes are truly the windows of the soul; and, if so, his soul needed regrouting.\u201d Cathy Bryant of Manchester, England, has won the 2012 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest<\/a>, which celebrates the worst in writing.<\/li>\n

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