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The Limits to Capital

Michael Robbins — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:46:46 +0000

Just wanted to post, belatedly, a link to Ms. Dark’s excellent interview with Gopal Balakrishnan in Lana Turner, since I have of late found myself nonplussed by the skepticism with which what seems an utterly uncontroversial, even trivial, claim is…

Just Read the Fucking Book

Michael Robbins — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:10:11 +0000

Browsing the poetry section in 57th Street Books today, I discovered that Knopf has placed the following blurb on the back of the paperback edition of Jack Gilbert’s The Dance Most of All:

“The best poems here are valuable bulletins

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The Slow Death of the American Middle Class

Robert P. Baird — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:52:01 +0000

From Yves Smith, quoting Martin Wolf quoting Raghuram Rajan, a number that should surprise even those who have never doubted capitalism’s tendency to take money from the hands of the many and put it in the pockets of…

Self-titled

Michael Robbins — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:59:05 +0000

Just a note to say that I have four poems in the new issue of Fence (printed at the editor’s behest under one title as a single poem in four sections, although they’re four separate poems in my manuscript…

Real Taste

Michael Robbins — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:00:45 +0000

I don’t talk about it much, but I spent part of my childhood in the careless & tacky condition of the very poor. Small town Colorado was where I learned what an eviction notice is, what food stamps could &…

Dancing on Architects in the Village Voice

Michael Robbins — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:30:39 +0000

Just a note to say my first record review appears in this week’s Village Voice, which is especially nifty for me, since it was Robert Christgau’s columns in that paper that first taught me what music criticism could be.…

Life Studies

Michael Robbins — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:51:50 +0000

Niggas just write
I recollect
I really lived it, man
—Young Jeezy

Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme—
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not…

lmfao

Michael Robbins — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:23:26 +0000

No comment.

Jane Bait

Robert P. Baird — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:52:40 +0000

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph:

As historian Simon Schama wrote over the weekend in the Finanicial Times – “The world teeters on the brink of a new age of rage: we face a tinderbox moment” – there is typically a

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They’re Not Gonna Take It

Robert P. Baird — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:40:25 +0000

Yves Smith on Greece (and Germany):

The effect of the bank rescues was a massive transfer from the citizenry to financiers, the greatest looting of the public purse in history. And the perps have behaved in a singularly ungrateful fashion,

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