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    Anyone here read Harper's Magazine

    I subscribed for the first time in 2005 after I saw Lewis Lapham on LinkTV. He was the General Editor then, and described how the magazine was mostly independently funded to avoid the influences of, oh, forces like oil, telco, etc. etc. It does have some fiction and poetry in it, but the...
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    Charles Bukowski by Jack Saunders

    I thought I was going to get into Saunders a lot more than I actually did. The Bukowski book attracted me, of course, and I enjoyed reading Forty. But once I started reading his ongoing online books (linked by hank above) I lost interest. The kitchen sink postmodernism lost my interest after a...
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    Best Bukowski Novel

    I agree with postino's sentiment about liking them all for different reasons. The novels have all been so important to me for different reasons that it is difficult to separate my feeling at the time from my sense of the books. With that said, I'd have to say that Factotum had and has the...
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    "Saturday Night Live" - Pros and Cons

    The vast majority of the show over all--well into the ninety-n percentages--is nearly unwatchable, and has been for a long time. The curse is that you have to somehow keep tabs on the show, if you are into comedy, to avoid missing gems of pure insanity like this (longish, but don't give up on...
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    Good self-published novels?

    I try to stay on the lookout for good self-published novels. So much that gets published by Big Publishing is such tepid shit. It is a rigged and corrupt system. I figure the independent spirit that would lead someone to self-publish a novel correlates well enough with having something...
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    When did you discover Bukowski?

    One of those early Henry Rollins books gave me the name. This probably '85 or '86. The rest was a bit of serendipity. In '87 I finally perused some Buk in the college library. I opened up "Dangling..." in the stacks and I knew it was my kind of stuff. When I took it down to the check-out desk...
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    Movie Bombs - Films NOT to see

    If you are looking to avoid renting bad older shit, this Worst of the Worst list has some all-time stinkers.
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    The Boozers Thread

    I go with single malts whenever somebody is willing to chip in for 'em. But for maintenance work (the 1.75 liter kind of stuff) Clan MacGregor is not bad.
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    Your favorite beer?

    Depends. Heineken is my fave for regular, affordable consumption when I want to somewhat savor it; for "getting the job done" cheaply, though, gotta go with Steel Reserve.
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    What about literary workshops?

    I have found that literary workshops--and literary evaluation of one's own writing in general--requires swallowing many grains of salt. You have to get to the point where you can view the opinions from the perspective of how they represent different populations of audiences. For example, I...
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    going to san francisco

    If you like experimental music, the Bay Area keeps a pretty full plate. Check the calendar here: http://bayimproviser.com/
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    Comedians

    Some greats I didn't see mentioned above (forgive me if I missed 'em) Keith Anthony Patton Oswalt Maria Bamford Of course, it seems that in comedy, like in so many other arts, one person's taste is another person's etsat.
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