digital emunction » Literature http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:48:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Holy Shit is Right http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/21/holy-shit-is-right/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/21/holy-shit-is-right/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:36:10 +0000 Robert P. Baird http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5297 Work this week means my blogging will be nearly non-existent, but Christian Lorenzen talks to Lorin Stein, Daniel Nester, and me about the Paris Review recalls in today’s Observer.

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/21/holy-shit-is-right/feed/ 21 I must cut down my expenses. For my ruin as well as America’s… http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/19/i-must-cut-down-my-expenses-for-my-ruin-as-well-as-americas%e2%80%a6/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/19/i-must-cut-down-my-expenses-for-my-ruin-as-well-as-americas%e2%80%a6/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:32:17 +0000 Robert P. Baird http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5293 Unexpected news for poetry fans, from the Washington Post’s big spy story:

Soon, on the grounds of the former St. Elizabeths mental hospital in Anacostia, a $3.4 billion showcase of security will rise from the crumbling brick wards. The

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“The best poems here are valuable bulletins

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/12/self-titled/feed/ 0 “The Labyrinth” Out Loud and Over the Top http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/06/the-labyrinth-out-loud-and-over-the-top/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/06/the-labyrinth-out-loud-and-over-the-top/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:08:12 +0000 Robert P. Baird http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5258 Chris Wiman and Don Share read and discuss my poem on this month’s Poetry podcast. Many thanks to them both!

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Ange has a great new prose piece on Beirut, occasional DE glossator Anthony Madrid has a title-cursing poem, and I’ve got a contribution to the future of publishing in the new issue of…

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/29/i-have-never-never-kissed-a-car-before/feed/ 2 Develop, Deploy, Discard: Wyatt Mason on David Foster Wallace http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/25/develop-deploy-discard-wyatt-mason-on-david-foster-wallace/ http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/25/develop-deploy-discard-wyatt-mason-on-david-foster-wallace/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:01:32 +0000 Robert P. Baird http://www.digitalemunction.com/?p=5210 I don’t know where Wyatt Mason’s been hiding, but I’m glad he’s back:

Pointing to Ippolit’s “Necessary Explanation” in The Idiot, Wallace asks:

Can you imagine any of our own major novelists allowing a character to say stuff like

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