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January 2008

• I Hit The Newspapers (11 comments) by Levi Asher on January 1, 2008
• Jamelah Reads the Classics: Ulysses, Part 1 (15 comments) by Jamelah Earle on January 3, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: January 6 2008 (2 comments) by Levi Asher on January 5, 2008
• I Hit The Huff (5 comments) by Levi Asher on January 7, 2008
• J. M. Coetzee: Discovering Disgrace (15 comments) by Levi Asher on January 7, 2008
• Geek Alert (5 comments) by Levi Asher on January 10, 2008
• Sing With Me Now: His Name Was Robert Paulson! (And Other Links) (7 comments) by Jamelah Earle on January 11, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: January 13 2008 (3 comments) by Levi Asher on January 13, 2008
• Screenings (5 comments) by Levi Asher on January 15, 2008
• Joyce Carol Oates in Tribeca (1 comment) by Levi Asher on January 16, 2008
• Did Steve Jobs Just Say This? (15 comments) by Levi Asher on January 17, 2008
• Five Short Stories I Love (17 comments) by Jamelah Earle on January 18, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: January 20 2008 (5 comments) by Levi Asher on January 19, 2008
• Can Laura Albert Be Forgiven? (21 comments) by Levi Asher on January 21, 2008
• Mysterious Strangers (2 comments) by Levi Asher on January 24, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: January 27 2008 (4 comments) by Levi Asher on January 26, 2008
• The Burning of Laura Instead of Nabokov (12 comments) by Jamelah Earle on January 28, 2008
• Message In A Bottle (15 comments) by Levi Asher on January 29, 2008
• With Rimbaud In Hell (3 comments) by Michael Norris on January 30, 2008

February 2008

• Reviewing the Review: February 3 2008 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on February 2, 2008
• Cassady Day (15 comments) by Levi Asher on February 4, 2008
• Pulling Levers (6 comments) by Levi Asher on February 5, 2008
• Mahirishi Mahesh Yogi Dies (12 comments) by Levi Asher on February 6, 2008
• Jamelah Reads the Classics: Ulysses, Part 2 (10 comments) by Jamelah Earle on February 8, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: February 10 2008 (6 comments) by Levi Asher on February 9, 2008
• Lay Down Your Weary Tune (5 comments) by Levi Asher on February 11, 2008
• Political Parties in Naked Lunch (8 comments) by Michael Gurnow on February 12, 2008
• A Drink of Absinthe (8 comments) by Michael Norris on February 14, 2008
• Ten Links (4 comments) by Jamelah Earle on February 15, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: February 17 2008 by Levi Asher on February 17, 2008
• Dancing With Benny Lava (1 comment) by Levi Asher on February 18, 2008
• Alan Bennett’s History Boys (4 comments) by Levi Asher on February 19, 2008
• Lit Lit (1 comment) by Levi Asher on February 21, 2008
• Five Favorites from African American Lit (15 comments) by Jamelah Earle on February 22, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: February 24 2008 (5 comments) by Levi Asher on February 24, 2008
• The Agony of the Slow Player (12 comments) by Levi Asher on February 26, 2008
• Freeness (8 comments) by Levi Asher on February 27, 2008
• The End Is Just the Beginning (6 comments) by Jamelah Earle on February 29, 2008

March 2008

• Reviewing the Review: March 2 2008 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on March 2, 2008
• Fortune Cookie Chronicles: What Happened To General Tso? (5 comments) by Levi Asher on March 4, 2008
• The Literary Locavore: Fiction from New York City (1 comment) by Levi Asher on March 5, 2008
• Of Broccoli and Books (12 comments) by Jamelah Earle on March 7, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: March 9 2008 (6 comments) by Levi Asher on March 8, 2008
• Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker (11 comments) by Levi Asher on March 10, 2008
• Bob and Ray! (And Chris, and Keith Olbermann) (7 comments) by Levi Asher on March 12, 2008
• Just Books (33 comments) by Jamelah Earle on March 14, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: March 16 2008 (3 comments) by Levi Asher on March 16, 2008
• Capitaine Achab (5 comments) by Michael Norris on March 17, 2008
• Pinky in Istanbul, Macbeth in Moscow (5 comments) by Levi Asher on March 18, 2008
• World (6 comments) by Levi Asher on March 20, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: March 23 2008 (11 comments) by Levi Asher on March 22, 2008
• A Walk Down Litblog Alley (3 comments) by Levi Asher on March 23, 2008
• Sit Down, John (7 comments) by Levi Asher on March 25, 2008
• Nine Finds (1 comment) by Jamelah Earle on March 27, 2008
• Releasing the Review: March 30 2008 (3 comments) by Levi Asher on March 30, 2008
• Backseat Driving: March 2008 (3 comments) by Levi Asher on March 31, 2008

April 2008

• Mark Vonnegut in Tribeca (3 comments) by Levi Asher on April 2, 2008
• Point/Counterpoint: National Poetry Month (16 comments) by Jamelah Earle on April 3, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: April 6 2008 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on April 6, 2008
• When Joe Walsh Joined the Eagles (9 comments) by Levi Asher on April 7, 2008
• The Rubicon (21 comments) by Levi Asher on April 9, 2008
• Twelve Monkeys (Or, Okay, Links) (5 comments) by Jamelah Earle on April 10, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: April 13 2008 (15 comments) by Levi Asher on April 13, 2008
• Why I’m Playing Bongo Drums on Thursday (8 comments) by Levi Asher on April 14, 2008
• Why I Love to Write (8 comments) by Jamelah Earle on April 17, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: April 20 2008 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on April 20, 2008
• Scroll Down (3 comments) by Levi Asher on April 21, 2008
• Harry, Rent (2 comments) by Levi Asher on April 22, 2008
• A Change In The Weather (2 comments) by Levi Asher on April 23, 2008
• Eight Links for the Weekend (4 comments) by Jamelah Earle on April 24, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: April 27 2008 (8 comments) by Levi Asher on April 27, 2008
• Berlin: Lou Reed’s Dark Poetry (12 comments) by Michael Norris on April 28, 2008
• Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Levy Urge Hope, Action, Olympic Boycott for Darfur (6 comments) by Levi Asher on April 29, 2008

May 2008

• A Glimpse of Burma (1 comment) by Levi Asher on May 1, 2008
• Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie and Mario Vargas Llosa at PEN World Voices (4 comments) by Levi Asher on May 3, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: May 4 2008 (2 comments) by Levi Asher on May 4, 2008
• A Philosophical Chat with James Morrow (3 comments) by Bill Ectric on May 5, 2008
• Eight Questions With Linda Plaisted (4 comments) by Jamelah Earle on May 7, 2008
• Dissonance (7 comments) by Levi Asher on May 8, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: May 11 2008 (12 comments) by Levi Asher on May 11, 2008
• Blinding Me With Science (19 comments) by Levi Asher on May 12, 2008
• All The Sad Young Menshevik Men (3 comments) by Levi Asher on May 13, 2008
• Les Soixante-Huitards (16 comments) by Michael Norris on May 14, 2008
• My Five Favorite Children’s Books (19 comments) by Jamelah Earle on May 16, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: May 18 2008 (5 comments) by Levi Asher on May 18, 2008
• What Walt Disney Knew (20 comments) by Levi Asher on May 19, 2008
• Hettie Jones: Prisons and Poets (16 comments) by Bill Ectric on May 21, 2008
• Grammar Nerd Dream Vacation (and Other Stories) (11 comments) by Jamelah Earle on May 22, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: May 25 2008 (14 comments) by Levi Asher on May 24, 2008
• First Person Plural, Second Person Singular (74 comments) by Levi Asher on May 26, 2008
• Googlefucked (11 comments) by Levi Asher on May 28, 2008
• Jesus, Etc. (4 comments) by Jamelah Earle on May 29, 2008
• Googlefixed (5 comments) by Levi Asher on May 30, 2008

June 2008

• Reviewing the Review: June 1 2008 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on June 1, 2008
• Offbeat with Andrew Gallix (20 comments) by Jennifer Cuddy on June 2, 2008
• Bo Diddley, Lyricist (10 comments) by Levi Asher on June 3, 2008
• Crescendo (10 comments) by Levi Asher on June 5, 2008
• Rebranding the Review: June 8 2008 (10 comments) by Levi Asher on June 8, 2008
• Tough Love (6 comments) by Levi Asher on June 9, 2008
• The Awesome and Important LitKicks Reading Survey (31 comments) by Jamelah Earle on June 10, 2008
• New Books: Zhu Wen, Indra Sinha (3 comments) by Levi Asher on June 12, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: June 15 2008 (10 comments) by Levi Asher on June 15, 2008
• Zine Scene (8 comments) by Levi Asher on June 16, 2008
• Good Ideas (11 comments) by Levi Asher on June 17, 2008
• John Carey on Elitism and the Literary Intelligentsia (25 comments) by Jennifer Cuddy on June 19, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: June 22 2008 (3 comments) by Levi Asher on June 22, 2008
• George Carlin: Safe at Home (8 comments) by Levi Asher on June 23, 2008
• Sick, Sick, Sick (18 comments) by Levi Asher on June 24, 2008
• Carlin Psych (4 comments) by Levi Asher on June 25, 2008
• Five Books I’ve Read While I Was Supposed To Be Reading Ulysses (23 comments) by Jamelah Earle on June 27, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: June 29 2008 (18 comments) by Levi Asher on June 28, 2008
• High Tech, High Touch (11 comments) by Levi Asher on June 30, 2008

July 2008

• Gone Marrying … by Levi Asher on July 1, 2008
• Reusing the Excuse: July 20 2008 by Levi Asher on July 19, 2008
• A Talk with Roxana Robinson (8 comments) by Levi Asher on July 22, 2008
• Writing to Write (6 comments) by Jamelah Earle on July 24, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: July 27 2008 (7 comments) by Levi Asher on July 26, 2008
• Spectator Sports (5 comments) by Levi Asher on July 28, 2008
• Visions of Bukowski (5 comments) by Adam Cohen on July 30, 2008
• Nine Links for Friday (9 comments) by Jamelah Earle on July 31, 2008

August 2008

• Reviewing the Review: August 3 2008 (5 comments) by Levi Asher on August 3, 2008
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn (11 comments) by Levi Asher on August 4, 2008
• New Books Report: Uwem Akpan, Mickey Z, Daniel Grandbois by Levi Asher on August 6, 2008
• Five Poems: Love (3 comments) by Jamelah Earle on August 7, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: August 10 2008 (9 comments) by Levi Asher on August 10, 2008
• The Alzheimer's Poetry Slam (9 comments) by Levi Asher on August 12, 2008
• The Two Times I Was Wrong (7 comments) by Levi Asher on August 13, 2008
• Be-In (8 comments) by Levi Asher on August 15, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: August 17 2008 (2 comments) by Levi Asher on August 16, 2008
• If My House Were on Fire... (16 comments) by Jamelah Earle on August 19, 2008
• Dzanc's Best of the Web 2008: Benjamin Buchholz in Iraq (1 comment) by Benjamin Buchholz on August 20, 2008
• Would You Go to a Cookout With Vincent Price? (7 comments) by Jamelah Earle on August 22, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: August 24 2008 (5 comments) by Levi Asher on August 24, 2008
• David Amram @ Democratic National Convention (7 comments) by Levi Asher on August 25, 2008
• Paul Auster's Man in the Dark (8 comments) by Levi Asher on August 27, 2008
• Milton, Disaster, and Ryan Adams: Ten Links (5 comments) by Jamelah Earle on August 28, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: August 31 2008 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on August 30, 2008

September 2008

• Unto this Last: John Ruskin's Economic and Political Writings (9 comments) by Michael Norris on September 1, 2008
• Irina Reyn, Rego Park and the Central Queens Lit Scene (13 comments) by Levi Asher on September 3, 2008
• War Stories (34 comments) by Levi Asher on September 4, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: September 7 2008 (10 comments) by Levi Asher on September 7, 2008
• Books Are Hot (10 comments) by Jamelah Earle on September 8, 2008
• Infernal (9 comments) by Levi Asher on September 9, 2008
• September 11: Collateral Damage (17 comments) by Levi Asher on September 11, 2008
• Reviewing the David Foster Wallace Obituaries: September 14 2008 (14 comments) by Levi Asher on September 14, 2008
• Wall Street, Tuesday Noon (6 comments) by Levi Asher on September 16, 2008
• Slavoj Zizek Meets Bernard-Henri Levy at the New York Public Library (12 comments) by Levi Asher on September 17, 2008
• And Now For Something Completely Different... (26 comments) by Jamelah Earle on September 18, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: September 21 2008 (8 comments) by Levi Asher on September 21, 2008
• Junk Books and Junk Bonds (or, Sometimes the Book Game Reminds Me of the Bank Game) (16 comments) by Levi Asher on September 22, 2008
• The Reading Room (9 comments) by Levi Asher on September 23, 2008
• Hootenanny Time (9 comments) by Levi Asher on September 25, 2008
• Inspiration vs. Dedication (9 comments) by Jamelah Earle on September 26, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: September 28 2008 (3 comments) by Levi Asher on September 28, 2008
• Literary Shea Stadium (9 comments) by Levi Asher on September 29, 2008

October 2008

• Big Thinking: Thoreau and the Economy (11 comments) by Levi Asher on October 1, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: October 5 2008 (4 comments) by Levi Asher on October 5, 2008
• Kindle Konfusion (13 comments) by Levi Asher on October 6, 2008
• Big Thinking: Wittgenstein, Language Games and Presidential Debates (13 comments) by Levi Asher on October 8, 2008
• Looking for J. M. G. Le Clezio, Nobel Laureate (4 comments) by Levi Asher on October 9, 2008
• Big Thinking: Kundera and Image (15 comments) by Jamelah Earle on October 10, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: October 12 2008 (6 comments) by Levi Asher on October 12, 2008
• Breakdowns (10 comments) by Levi Asher on October 13, 2008
• Big Thinking: Tolstoy and Guerrophilia (12 comments) by Levi Asher on October 14, 2008
• Fictional Keys to the Milan Kundera Uproar (12 comments) by Jamelah Earle on October 17, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: October 19 2008 (11 comments) by Levi Asher on October 18, 2008
• Big Thinking: Plato and the Republic of Your Soul (12 comments) by Levi Asher on October 21, 2008
• New Books Report: Muriel Barbery, Michael Kimball, Strange Harbors (3 comments) by Levi Asher on October 23, 2008
• From The Music Man to The Wire: Ten Links (9 comments) by Jamelah Earle on October 24, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: October 26 2008 (4 comments) by Levi Asher on October 26, 2008
• Big Thinking: Mill, Taxation and the Individual (15 comments) by Levi Asher on October 28, 2008
• WTF (6 comments) by Levi Asher on October 31, 2008

November 2008

• Reviewing the Review: November 2 2008 (5 comments) by Levi Asher on November 2, 2008
• Big Thinking: Jung and the Electoral Map (9 comments) by Levi Asher on November 4, 2008
• Celebration Time (61 comments) by Levi Asher on November 5, 2008
• An Election Story (29 comments) by Levi Asher on November 6, 2008
• Updike In Winter (5 comments) by Jamelah Earle on November 7, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: November 9 2008 (3 comments) by Levi Asher on November 10, 2008
• Do The Right Thing (18 comments) by Levi Asher on November 11, 2008
• LitKicks Video Presents: Reading Ulysses (19 comments) by Jamelah Earle on November 12, 2008
• Francoise Sagan: Sex, Drugs and Literature (8 comments) by Michael Norris on November 14, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: November 16 2008 (20 comments) by Levi Asher on November 15, 2008
• Long May You Run (25 comments) by Levi Asher on November 17, 2008
• National Book Awards 2008 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on November 19, 2008
• Milton Is Awesome (And Other Links) (5 comments) by Jamelah Earle on November 21, 2008
• S. Clay Wilson Hospitalized (8 comments) by Levi Asher on November 22, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: November 23 2008 (16 comments) by Levi Asher on November 23, 2008
• Too Literary to Fail? Houghton Mifflin, Writers in Trouble (15 comments) by Levi Asher on November 24, 2008
• Ah Pook in Manhattan (1 comment) by Levi Asher on November 26, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: November 30 2008 (4 comments) by Levi Asher on November 30, 2008

December 2008

• Literary Trivia Smackdown and Other Things (4 comments) by Levi Asher on December 2, 2008
• Black Wednesday in Publishing-Land (2 comments) by Levi Asher on December 3, 2008
• Literary Holiday Shopping Guide for 2008 (10 comments) by Jamelah Earle on December 5, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: December 7 2008 (4 comments) by Levi Asher on December 7, 2008
• Litblogger Butts Kicked (1 comment) by Levi Asher on December 7, 2008
• The Tortured History of John O'Hara's Pal Joey (14 comments) by Levi Asher on December 8, 2008
• Eat the Viscera (5 comments) by Levi Asher on December 10, 2008
• A Bear, A Donkey, A Kangaroo, A Pig, A Tiger (2 comments) by Levi Asher on December 12, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: December 14 2008 (5 comments) by Levi Asher on December 15, 2008
• New Books Grab Bag, December 2008 (4 comments) by Levi Asher on December 16, 2008
• Stories To Tell (8 comments) by Levi Asher on December 18, 2008
• Jeff VanderMeer, The Hardest Working Man in Fantasy (6 comments) by Bill Ectric on December 19, 2008
• Reviewing the Review: December 21 2008 (6 comments) by Levi Asher on December 21, 2008
• Good Gifts (5 comments) by Levi Asher on December 23, 2008
• Kate and Leo in Suburbia (5 comments) by Levi Asher on December 24, 2008
• Harold Pinter by Levi Asher on December 25, 2008
• Action Poetry 2008 (6 comments) by Levi Asher on December 26, 2008

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