Mark Sussman
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  • Uncreative Writing REDUX
  • David Shields’s “Life is Short; Art is Shorter”
  • Diogenes the Dog
  • David Markson, a really, really belated remembrance
  • “The Destruction of the Word”
  • In Which I Discover New Depths
  • Pound’s Fecal Hell, Céline’s Shitty Utopia
  • The Two English Departments
  • “Never the center of itself”
  • Two Points about The Black Swan

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  For all the bullshit Kickstarter projects out there, you would think we could get bill hader and Kristin wiig their own thing.
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  Prison Studies would make an okay band name. They could tour with Panopticon.

Departure

My flight for Israel leaves later tonight. I’m going to try to post about the trip every day, but we’ll see what happens. Obviously I’m not the most diligent blogger, but I anticipate having lots to say. So.

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