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Over the weekend at The Believer Logger: Durbin X Durbin! For those of you who don't know your Durbins from atom, that's Kate Durbin and Andrew Durbin (no relation [or:...

Larry Eigner, photo received April 1962. George Hart and Jennifer Bartlett edited a wonderful portfolio of Larry Eigner’s letters in our December 2014 issue, and it prompted us to dig...

Oh come all ye bookworms, Ugly Duckling Presse has a wish list item for you! This holiday, season UDP is offering holiday box sets of five books for $25. The...

We're always hoping for some unearthed treasure to add to the Beckett canon, as we've pointed to here and here. And how joyed we've been as Beckett's Selected Letters have...

An auction house in Southern California, Profiles in History, planned to sell the infamous "Joan Anderson" letter written by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac on December 17th: until both the...

Yoko Ono will have her first official show at MoMA since her debut performance in 1971, "when she hosted a one woman show that came with an accompanying catalogue entitled...

On a nightly basis, residents in Oakland, Berkeley, and beyond have been protesting a wave of violence inflicted by police officers on young, African-American men. At the City Lights Publishers...

The Interrogation and Detention of Abu Zubaydah 1. On April 15, 2002, per a scripted plan, the same CIA interrogator delivered what a CIA cable described as “the pre move...

Nathaniel Farrell's newest full-length book is a book-length poem! Newcomer appeared this year from Ugly Duckling Presse. At Warscapes, poetry editor Noam Scheindlin provides a insightful introduction to Farrell's work...

Time Out New York adores chapbooks, who knew. The weekly finds them to be "pocket-sized gems" "favored by poets" that often offer "exceptional lesser-known writing talent." TONY's recommendations for the...