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  1. @chrisricewriter Perfect. I'll look for it this winter. 16 minutes ago via Mobile Web in reply to chrisricewriter
  2. @chrisricewriter And here’s your new Swedish nom de plume: Kristoffer Ris. about 1 hour ago via web in reply to chrisricewriter
  3. "Summertime Berkeley giving off her old-lady smell, nine...styles of jasmine and a squirt of he-cat."--from Chabon's TELEGRAPH AVENUE about 7 hours ago via web
  4. @harikunzru Updike, too: is.gd/LVqhgK about 9 hours ago via Mobile Web in reply to harikunzru
  5. @lindseyhilsum Excellent. Hope to see you then. 4:07 PM May 30th via web in reply to lindseyhilsum
  6. @juliebosman I love that he left himself just enough free space for the all-important coffee. 4:00 PM May 30th via web in reply to juliebosman
  7. @juliebosman I suppose the same would have been said about John Leonard: is.gd/gOG2OE 3:52 PM May 30th via web in reply to juliebosman
  8. I knew about Hell, Mich. Thanks to @lindseyhilsum’s SANDSTORM, I learned about Hell, Libya (Jahannam), birthplace of a certain dictator. 3:04 PM May 30th via web
  9. A lovely obituary of Kathi Kamen Goldmark in the New York Times: is.gd/tiRgoY 6:52 AM May 30th via Mobile Web
  10. @brainpicker As did Victor Hugo. In zee buff. 11:26 AM May 29th via web in reply to brainpicker
  11. "Cotton candy like cheap pink wigs." A delicious image from Lucia Perillo's HAPPINESS IS A CHEMICAL IN THE BRAIN: tinyurl.com/7awhbjm 10:22 AM May 29th via web
  12. @james_meader I'll go tell her at once. 9:08 AM May 26th via Mobile Web in reply to james_meader
  13. Breakfast reading. twitpic.com/9pi6qu 8:44 AM May 26th via Twitpic
  14. Tonight: @BooksIncMarina will pay tribute to the late Kathi Kamen Goldmark at 7 p.m. Kathi contributed to the anthology EXIT LAUGHING. 2:55 PM May 25th via web