Favorite Tweets:

Favorite Search Terms:

• If I wanted the government in my womb: I’d suck down the whole thing, all three branches; judicial, executive, legislative. (See I listened in High School US History).
• tracy k. smith poetry excerpts: Her Poem, “Interrogative“
• yellow bedroom anis comforter: somehow this search term managed to confuse me into Anais Nin being connected to The Yellow Wallpaper.  It’s early, no coffee yet.
• cat lady comic book: IS THIS TRUE!?
• what do owls symbolize in hoot: horror. Just FYI, on my mom’s bucket list is, “see an owl in the wild.”  Exact quote, “I only ever see them in zoos.”  They’re also nocturnal so it’s going to be hard to get this one going.
• raven bird in my basement: Go Poe on that Raven.

Book News:

• Why is Literary Fame So Unpredictable @ The New Yorker
• Jennifer Egan (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Writes Story in Twitter Installments @ New Yorker Fiction
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  Lauren Groff’s Choice Book for You Have To Read This

  Lauren Groff is on You Must Read This.  Talks happy fiction @ All Things Considered

• Strand Bookstore turns 85! @ Shelf Awareness
• Edith Wharton’s Houses @ The New Yorker
• 15 Summer Reads Handpicked by Indie Booksellers @ NPR
• Literary Spoilers – Do they Matter? @ Huff Post Teen
• Insatiable Booksluts are having a sale to raise money for NYC.  CUTE NECKLACES.
• Middle Grades Author Anne Ursa talks Breadcrumbs @ Novel Novice
• Want to be a Literary Heroine @ NZ Herald
• Penicilophilia @ The New Yorker
• Robert Pattinson as Finnick in Hunger Games (please gag me with a spoon) @ Huff Post
• Poem: Crystal Meth Under her Choir Robe @ Poetry Foundation
• Jonathan Franzen’s New Book, Farther Away @ LA Review of Books
• Who Should Star in 50 Shades of Grey @ Huff Post
• Readers Review: Train Dreams @ Diane Rehm Show
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  Share Books with Our Troops

  Share Books with Troops @ Galley Cat

• Baby’s in Black – Graphic Novel about The Beatles @ The Seattle Times
• Are YA Covers Racist @ Huff Post
• Jonathan Franzen on Freedom @ The Guardian
• Aspiring Author Uses Kickstarter to Fund Book @ Daily Inter Lake
• Poem Talk @ PennSound
• Summer Reading App @ Huff Post
• Wave of Liberal Books @ Huff Post
• Biggest Threat to Public Libraries @ Huff Post
• Finding Confidence at the Library @ NYPL
• Dark Side of the Publishing Industry @ Lit Reactor
• Richard Ford talks to Diane Rehm about New Book @ Diane Rehm Show
• Fragments of a Nation @ Granta
• Man Takes on Amazon and Saves Bookstore @ Good Men Project
• Should YA Books be Given Ratings @ Huff Post
• Picador Book Room @ Tumblr
• Formula for Best-Sellers @ Huff Post
• Donate to Copper Canyon – Get a Free Book (Copper Canyon is the premier Poetry Press.  It’s unbelievable). @ Poetry Foundation
• Reading Fifty Shades of Grey Across America @ Goodreads
• Facebook Updates by Famous Literary Characters @ NY Daily News
• Tickets On-sale for 2012 Poet’s Forum @ Poetry Foundation
• Plath and Mad-Men @ Mad Men Unbuttoned
• First Book Turns 20 @ Children’s Book Council
• Win a Chuck Klosterman Library by Submitting a Video @ Scribner
• Orange will Withdraw Sponsorship from Orange Prize @ The Guardian

• This is white space.  Fill it in with ferns of wild imagination.