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January 2008

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

February 2008

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

March 2008

Reviewing the Review: March 2 2008
      by Levi Asher on March 2, 2008
Fortune Cookie Chronicles: What Happened To General Tso?
      by Levi Asher on March 4, 2008
The Literary Locavore: Fiction from New York City
      by Levi Asher on March 5, 2008
Of Broccoli and Books
      by Jamelah Earle on March 7, 2008
Reviewing the Review: March 9 2008
      by Levi Asher on March 8, 2008
Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
      by Levi Asher on March 10, 2008
Bob and Ray! (And Chris, and Keith Olbermann)
      by Levi Asher on March 12, 2008
Just Books
      by Jamelah Earle on March 14, 2008
Reviewing the Review: March 16 2008
      by Levi Asher on March 16, 2008
Capitaine Achab
      by Michael Norris on March 17, 2008
Pinky in Istanbul, Macbeth in Moscow
      by Levi Asher on March 18, 2008
World
      by Levi Asher on March 20, 2008
Reviewing the Review: March 23 2008
      by Levi Asher on March 22, 2008
A Walk Down Litblog Alley
      by Levi Asher on March 24, 2008
Sit Down, John
      by Levi Asher on March 26, 2008
Nine Finds
      by Jamelah Earle on March 27, 2008
Releasing the Review: March 30 2008
      by Levi Asher on March 30, 2008
Backseat Driving: March 2008
      by Levi Asher on March 31, 2008

April 2008

Mark Vonnegut in Tribeca
      by Levi Asher on April 2, 2008
Point/Counterpoint: National Poetry Month
      by Jamelah Earle on April 3, 2008
Reviewing the Review: April 6 2008
      by Levi Asher on April 6, 2008
When Joe Walsh Joined the Eagles
      by Levi Asher on April 7, 2008
The Rubicon
      by Levi Asher on April 9, 2008
Twelve Monkeys (Or, Okay, Links)
      by Jamelah Earle on April 11, 2008
Reviewing the Review: April 13 2008
      by Levi Asher on April 13, 2008
Why I’m Playing Bongo Drums on Thursday
      by Levi Asher on April 14, 2008
Why I Love to Write
      by Jamelah Earle on April 18, 2008
Reviewing the Review: April 20 2008
      by Levi Asher on April 20, 2008
Scroll Down
      by Levi Asher on April 21, 2008
Harry, Rent
      by Levi Asher on April 22, 2008
A Change In The Weather
      by Levi Asher on April 24, 2008
Eight Links for the Weekend
      by Jamelah Earle on April 24, 2008
Reviewing the Review: April 27 2008
      by Levi Asher on April 27, 2008
Berlin: Lou Reed’s Dark Poetry
      by Michael Norris on April 28, 2008

May 2008

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

June 2008

Reviewing the Review: June 1 2008
      by Levi Asher on June 1, 2008
Offbeat with Andrew Gallix
      by Jennifer Cuddy on June 2, 2008
Bo Diddley, Lyricist
      by Levi Asher on June 4, 2008
Crescendo
      by Levi Asher on June 5, 2008
Rebranding the Review: June 8 2008
      by Levi Asher on June 8, 2008
Tough Love
      by Levi Asher on June 9, 2008
The Awesome and Important LitKicks Reading Survey
      by Jamelah Earle on June 10, 2008
New Books: Zhu Wen, Indra Sinha
      by Levi Asher on June 13, 2008
Reviewing the Review: June 15 2008
      by Levi Asher on June 15, 2008
Zine Scene
      by Levi Asher on June 17, 2008
Good Ideas
      by Levi Asher on June 17, 2008
John Carey on Elitism and the Literary Intelligentsia
      by Jennifer Cuddy on June 20, 2008
Reviewing the Review: June 22 2008
      by Levi Asher on June 22, 2008
George Carlin: Safe at Home
      by Levi Asher on June 23, 2008
Sick, Sick, Sick
      by Levi Asher on June 24, 2008
Carlin Psych
      by Levi Asher on June 25, 2008
Five Books I’ve Read While I Was Supposed To Be Reading Ulysses
      by Jamelah Earle on June 27, 2008
Reviewing the Review: June 29 2008
      by Levi Asher on June 28, 2008
High Tech, High Touch
      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
      by Levi Asher on July 22, 2008
Writing to Write
      by Jamelah Earle on July 24, 2008
Reviewing the Review: July 27 2008
      by Levi Asher on July 26, 2008
Spectator Sports
      by Levi Asher on July 28, 2008
Visions of Bukowski
      by Adam Cohen on July 30, 2008
Nine Links for Friday
      by Jamelah Earle on July 31, 2008

August 2008

Reviewing the Review: August 3 2008
      by Levi Asher on August 3, 2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
      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
      by Jamelah Earle on August 7, 2008
Reviewing the Review: August 10 2008
      by Levi Asher on August 10, 2008
The Alzheimer's Poetry Slam
      by Levi Asher on August 12, 2008
The Two Times I Was Wrong
      by Levi Asher on August 13, 2008
Be-In
      by Levi Asher on August 15, 2008
Reviewing the Review: August 17 2008
      by Levi Asher on August 17, 2008
If My House Were on Fire...
      by Jamelah Earle on August 19, 2008
Dzanc's Best of the Web 2008: Benjamin Buchholz in Iraq
      by Benjamin Buchholz on August 20, 2008
Would You Go to a Cookout With Vincent Price?
      by Jamelah Earle on August 22, 2008
Reviewing the Review: August 24 2008
      by Levi Asher on August 24, 2008
David Amram @ Democratic National Convention
      by Levi Asher on August 25, 2008
Paul Auster's Man in the Dark
      by Levi Asher on August 27, 2008
Milton, Disaster, and Ryan Adams: Ten Links
      by Jamelah Earle on August 28, 2008
Reviewing the Review: August 31 2008
      by Levi Asher on August 30, 2008

September 2008

Unto this Last: John Ruskin's Economic and Political Writings
      by Michael Norris on September 1, 2008
Irina Reyn, Rego Park and the Central Queens Lit Scene
      by Levi Asher on September 3, 2008
War Stories
      by Levi Asher on September 4, 2008
Reviewing the Review: September 7 2008
      by Levi Asher on September 7, 2008
Books Are Hot
      by Jamelah Earle on September 9, 2008
Infernal
      by Levi Asher on September 10, 2008
September 11: Collateral Damage
      by Levi Asher on September 11, 2008
Reviewing the David Foster Wallace Obituaries: September 14 2008
      by Levi Asher on September 14, 2008
Wall Street, Tuesday Noon
      by Levi Asher on September 16, 2008
Slavoj Zizek Meets Bernard-Henri Levy at the New York Public Library
      by Levi Asher on September 17, 2008
And Now For Something Completely Different...
      by Jamelah Earle on September 18, 2008
Reviewing the Review: September 21 2008
      by Levi Asher on September 21, 2008
The Reading Room
      by Levi Asher on September 24, 2008
Hootenanny Time
      by Levi Asher on September 25, 2008
Inspiration vs. Dedication
      by Jamelah Earle on September 26, 2008
Reviewing the Review: September 28 2008
      by Levi Asher on September 28, 2008
Literary Shea Stadium
      by Levi Asher on September 29, 2008

October 2008

Big Thinking: Thoreau and the Economy
      by Levi Asher on October 2, 2008
Reviewing the Review: October 5 2008
      by Levi Asher on October 5, 2008
Kindle Konfusion
      by Levi Asher on October 6, 2008
Big Thinking: Wittgenstein, Language Games and Presidential Debates
      by Levi Asher on October 8, 2008
Looking for J. M. G. Le Clezio, Nobel Laureate
      by Levi Asher on October 9, 2008
Big Thinking: Kundera and Image
      by Jamelah Earle on October 10, 2008
Reviewing the Review: October 12 2008
      by Levi Asher on October 12, 2008
Breakdowns
      by Levi Asher on October 14, 2008
Big Thinking: Tolstoy and Guerrophilia
      by Levi Asher on October 15, 2008
Fictional Keys to the Milan Kundera Uproar
      by Jamelah Earle on October 17, 2008
Reviewing the Review: October 19 2008
      by Levi Asher on October 18, 2008
Big Thinking: Plato and the Republic of Your Soul
      by Levi Asher on October 21, 2008
New Books Report: Muriel Barbery, Michael Kimball, Strange Harbors
      by Levi Asher on October 23, 2008
From The Music Man to The Wire: Ten Links
      by Jamelah Earle on October 24, 2008
Reviewing the Review: October 26 2008
      by Levi Asher on October 26, 2008
Big Thinking: Mill, Taxation and the Individual
      by Levi Asher on October 28, 2008
WTF
      by Levi Asher on October 31, 2008

November 2008

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

December 2008

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