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January 2010

• In Progress by Levi Asher on January 3, 2010
• Nook Encounter (22 comments) by Levi Asher on January 3, 2010
• Comfort Food: True Confections by Katharine Weber (1 comment) by Levi Asher on January 5, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: January 10 2010 (6 comments) by Levi Asher on January 9, 2010
• On The Run (3 comments) by Levi Asher on January 11, 2010
• Ed McClanahan's Clear Moment (11 comments) by Dan Barth on January 13, 2010
• Not Feeling The Ferris (9 comments) by Levi Asher on January 14, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: January 17 2010 by Levi Asher on January 16, 2010
• Where I'm From 2010 (2 comments) by Levi Asher on January 18, 2010
• New York Times Gets Smaller (5 comments) by Levi Asher on January 20, 2010
• Five Hiphop Masterpieces From the Past Decade #5: Come Home With Me by Levi Asher on January 21, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: January 24 2010 (5 comments) by Levi Asher on January 23, 2010
• Keeping Emerson Around (2 comments) by Levi Asher on January 25, 2010
• Throwing Down With the New York Times (3 comments) by Levi Asher on January 26, 2010
• J. D. Salinger Dies (2 comments) by Levi Asher on January 28, 2010
• The Wow Effect (1 comment) by Levi Asher on January 28, 2010
• Five Hiphop Masterpieces From the Past Decade #4: Get Rich or Die Tryin' (7 comments) by Levi Asher on January 29, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: January 30 2010 (6 comments) by Levi Asher on January 31, 2010

February 2010

• Amazon and Macmillan: The Pricing Bowl (4 comments) by Levi Asher on February 1, 2010
• Up In The Air With Walter Kirn (17 comments) by Levi Asher on February 1, 2010
• Invisible by Paul Auster (3 comments) by Meg Wise-Lawrence on February 3, 2010
• Five Hiphop Masterpieces From The Past Decade #3: Graduation (5 comments) by Levi Asher on February 4, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: February 7 2010 (2 comments) by Levi Asher on February 7, 2010
• Just Kids by Patti Smith (8 comments) by Levi Asher on February 8, 2010
• Pondering Proust IIIb: More On Guermantes Way (3 comments) by Michael Norris on February 9, 2010
• Old Friends (1 comment) by Levi Asher on February 10, 2010
• Five Hiphop Masterpieces From The Past Decade #2: 2001 (8 comments) by Levi Asher on February 12, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: February 14 2010 (23 comments) by Levi Asher on February 14, 2010
• Seymour Krim's Howl: I Was Not Destroyed, Mr. Ginsberg! (3 comments) by Mark Cohen on February 15, 2010
• Olympic Thoughts (1 comment) by Levi Asher on February 17, 2010
• Five Hiphop Masterpieces From The Past Decade #1: The Blueprint (10 comments) by Levi Asher on February 18, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: February 21 2010 (4 comments) by Levi Asher on February 21, 2010
• Manifesto: On Poker Chips, Paperback Book Publishing and Health Care Reform (6 comments) by Levi Asher on February 22, 2010
• A Murder and a Metaphor: Litkicks Mystery Spot #1 (161 comments) by Levi Asher on February 24, 2010
• In Gatsby's Tracks: Locating the Valley of Ashes in a 1924 Photo (19 comments) by Levi Asher on February 25, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: February 28 2010 (16 comments) by Levi Asher on February 28, 2010

March 2010

• Reality Hunger by David Shields (22 comments) by Levi Asher on March 1, 2010
• Little Known Literary Facts (5 comments) by Levi Asher on March 3, 2010
• What If The E-Book Revolution Never Gets Here? (30 comments) by Levi Asher on March 4, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: March 7 2010 (2 comments) by Levi Asher on March 7, 2010
• The Top Ten Crime and Mystery Novels of 2009 (24 comments) by Garrett Kenyon on March 8, 2010
• Theodor Seuss Geisel: A Psychological Biography of Dr. Seuss (12 comments) by Levi Asher on March 10, 2010
• John Banville, the 20 Minute Guitar Solo and Truth in Fiction (16 comments) by Levi Asher on March 11, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: March 14 2010 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on March 14, 2010
• An Infernal Love Nest: Litkicks Mystery Spot #2 (23 comments) by Levi Asher on March 15, 2010
• No. 1 Rue Des Brasseurs: Verlaine and Rimbaud (7 comments) by Levi Asher on March 16, 2010
• Unbearable: The Worst Book I Ever Read (3 comments) by Levi Asher on March 17, 2010
• New Mailing Address (and Some More Interesting Stuff) (5 comments) by Levi Asher on March 18, 2010
• Reviewing the Health Care Reform Debate (52 comments) by Levi Asher on March 21, 2010
• The Literary Life: A Talk With Ron Kolm (7 comments) by Levi Asher on March 23, 2010
• Stay Hungry: Why David Shields's Book Is Important (8 comments) by Levi Asher on March 25, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: March 28 2010 (4 comments) by Levi Asher on March 27, 2010
• Pondering Proust IV: Sodome et Gommorhe, or Cities of the Plain (5 comments) by Michael Norris on March 28, 2010
• Like The Weather (3 comments) by Levi Asher on March 31, 2010

April 2010

• Picture Book (4 comments) by Levi Asher on April 2, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: April 4 2010 (2 comments) by Levi Asher on April 4, 2010
• Talking Tao With Ron Hogan (5 comments) by Levi Asher on April 5, 2010
• Beatniks: How I Wrote A Subculture Guidebook (9 comments) by Alan Bisbort on April 7, 2010
• Assisted Suicide for Dummies: Buffalo Lockjaw by Greg Ames (5 comments) by Levi Asher on April 8, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: April 11 2010 (3 comments) by Levi Asher on April 11, 2010
• Tuna Break (5 comments) by Levi Asher on April 12, 2010
• A Little Country Village: Litkicks Mystery Spot #3 (13 comments) by Levi Asher on April 13, 2010
• Steventon, Hampshire, England: Where Jane Austen Grew (2 comments) by Levi Asher on April 14, 2010
• Archiving the Cloud: Twitter Meets the Library of Congress (8 comments) by Levi Asher on April 15, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: April 18 2010 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on April 18, 2010
• Naive Melodies (3 comments) by Levi Asher on April 19, 2010
• The Web's Global Problem (18 comments) by Levi Asher on April 20, 2010
• Esperanto 2.0? The Quest For a World Language (29 comments) by Levi Asher on April 22, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: April 25 2010 (3 comments) by Levi Asher on April 25, 2010
• Meeting the Tea Party (9 comments) by Levi Asher on April 26, 2010
• Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1 comment) by Levi Asher on April 28, 2010
• Opening the Door to Poetry Therapy (9 comments) by Lila Lizabeth Weisberger on April 29, 2010

May 2010

• Reviewing the Review: May 2 2010 by Levi Asher on May 2, 2010
• Adaptations: A PEN World Voices 2010 Conversation About Literature and Film (2 comments) by Dedi Felman on May 3, 2010
• Beloved and Unknown: Adventures in Marketing an International Masterpiece (8 comments) by Dedi Felman on May 5, 2010
• Music City (4 comments) by Levi Asher on May 7, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: May 9 2010 (18 comments) by Levi Asher on May 9, 2010
• T. S. Eliot Is Not Obliged To Love Me (10 comments) by Levi Asher on May 10, 2010
• An Epic City: Litkicks Mystery Spot #4 (29 comments) by Levi Asher on May 12, 2010
• Joyce's Dublin: Bloom on Eccles Street (11 comments) by Levi Asher on May 13, 2010
• Reviewing the Review of the Review: May 15 2010 (9 comments) by Levi Asher on May 15, 2010
• The Line by Olga Grushin (8 comments) by Garrett Kenyon on May 17, 2010
• Stuff I Like (4 comments) by Levi Asher on May 19, 2010
• Immutability: the Thingness of Books (14 comments) by Levi Asher on May 20, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: May 23 2010 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on May 22, 2010
• Written In Prison (2 comments) by Alan Bisbort on May 24, 2010
• Interlude: The Proustian Obsession (3 comments) by Michael Norris on May 26, 2010
• E-Books: A Lousy First Date (19 comments) by Levi Asher on May 27, 2010
• Contemplating Book Expo 2010 (7 comments) by Levi Asher on May 29, 2010
• Peter Orlovsky, Beat Muse (and Dennis Hopper) (6 comments) by Levi Asher on May 31, 2010

June 2010

• Streaks of Light (9 comments) by Levi Asher on June 2, 2010
• Being J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace Starring John Malkovich (10 comments) by Levi Asher on June 3, 2010
• Reviewing the Review: June 6 2010 (1 comment) by Levi Asher on June 6, 2010
• David Markson, Beloved By Many (1 comment) by Levi Asher on June 7, 2010
• Victor Davis Hanson, Helen Thomas, Children.org and the Value of Civil Disagreement (15 comments) by Levi Asher on June 8, 2010
• Take Care Of Your Shoes (3 comments) by Levi Asher on June 10, 2010
• Time Out (9 comments) by Levi Asher on June 12, 2010
• Baseball: The Great American Literary Sport (10 comments) by Alan Bisbort on June 15, 2010
• Romance in a Dry Land: Litkicks Mystery Spot #5 (22 comments) by Levi Asher on June 16, 2010
• La Mancha, Espana: Where Cervantes' Knight Roamed (4 comments) by Levi Asher on June 17, 2010
• End of an Experiment: Releasing the Review (14 comments) by Levi Asher on June 19, 2010
• Bad Marie: A Talk With Marcy Dermansky (7 comments) by Levi Asher on June 21, 2010
• Bubblespeak for E-Books (7 comments) by Levi Asher on June 22, 2010
• T. S. Eliot and his Jellicle Cats (5 comments) by Levi Asher on June 24, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: The Anguish Of Sisyphus (11 comments) by Levi Asher on June 27, 2010
• I Am A Writer, And This Is Where I Write (21 comments) by Levi Asher on June 29, 2010
• Street Piano (10 comments) by Levi Asher on June 30, 2010

July 2010

• Philosophy Weekend: Pacifism's Coma (16 comments) by Levi Asher on July 2, 2010
• On Diacriticals and Foreign Place Names (13 comments) by Levi Asher on July 6, 2010
• Adam Langer's Thieves of Manhattan (5 comments) by Levi Asher on July 8, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Are All Religions The Same? (15 comments) by Levi Asher on July 10, 2010
• Tuli Kupferberg (and Harvey Pekar) (5 comments) by Levi Asher on July 12, 2010
• A Picture And A Song (5 comments) by Levi Asher on July 14, 2010
• Where They Lived (9 comments) by Levi Asher on July 16, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: The Four Types of Evil (11 comments) by Levi Asher on July 17, 2010
• A Walking Spell: Litkicks Mystery Spot #6 (12 comments) by Levi Asher on July 19, 2010
• Linguists Gone Mad: Paul Auster's Upper West Side (6 comments) by Levi Asher on July 20, 2010
• Like A Lead Zeppelin (9 comments) by Levi Asher on July 22, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Living in a Dark Age (15 comments) by Levi Asher on July 24, 2010
• Fiction and Cultural Memory: Writing From Ceausescu's Romania (5 comments) by Claudia Moscovici on July 26, 2010
• Appreciating Andrew Wylie, Evil Bohemian Jackal (11 comments) by Levi Asher on July 28, 2010
• The New Kindle: Winner, Winner, Winner? (11 comments) by Levi Asher on July 29, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Choosing My Religion (18 comments) by Levi Asher on July 30, 2010

August 2010

• Bob Holman's 15 Rules For Hecklers (5 comments) by Levi Asher on August 2, 2010
• Pondering Proust V: The Prisoner (3 comments) by Michael Norris on August 4, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: The Trauma Theory (13 comments) by Levi Asher on August 7, 2010
• Looking At You (6 comments) by Levi Asher on August 9, 2010
• Literary Success: It's In The Cards (5 comments) by Alan Bisbort on August 11, 2010
• The German Genius By Peter Watson (12 comments) by Levi Asher on August 12, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Without Blinders (16 comments) by Levi Asher on August 14, 2010
• Plum's Books (2 comments) by Levi Asher on August 16, 2010
• A Walk in the Park: Litkicks Mystery Spot #7 (16 comments) by Levi Asher on August 17, 2010
• Vision of the Ducks: Holden Caulfield's Journey in Central Park (3 comments) by Levi Asher on August 18, 2010
• The Dog Ate My Philosophy Weekend (8 comments) by Levi Asher on August 22, 2010
• The Slowest Film Ever Made: On The Road The Movie (23 comments) by Levi Asher on August 23, 2010
• Mon Le Bossu (3 comments) by Levi Asher on August 26, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: The Jamesian Gospel (16 comments) by Levi Asher on August 28, 2010
• Jonathan Franzen of America (5 comments) by Levi Asher on August 30, 2010

September 2010

• The Conformism of Postmodern Style (16 comments) by Claudia Moscovici on September 1, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee and Animal Ethics (5 comments) by Levi Asher on September 4, 2010
• The Alternative Encyclopedist: A Talk With Michael Largo (2 comments) by Levi Asher on September 7, 2010
• Notes from the Secondhand Store (8 comments) by Alan Bisbort on September 8, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Everybody Please Stop Giving Plato Shit About Music and Poetry (9 comments) by Levi Asher on September 11, 2010
• Pondering Proust VI: The Fugitive (3 comments) by Michael Norris on September 14, 2010
• Dollar Bill (6 comments) by Alan Bisbort on September 15, 2010
• Yeah Whatever Go Already (5 comments) by Levi Asher on September 16, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Does Evil Walk Among Us? (7 comments) by Levi Asher on September 19, 2010
• If You Liked Franzen's Freedom, You Should Try ... (1 comment) by Levi Asher on September 19, 2010
• Dinner Companions (10 comments) by Levi Asher on September 22, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: The Philosophy of the Tea Party (8 comments) by Levi Asher on September 26, 2010
• Tao Lin, Aiming For The Sky (4 comments) by Levi Asher on September 27, 2010
• The Challenge: Write Something Fresh About Franzen's Book (3 comments) by Levi Asher on September 28, 2010

October 2010

• Philosophy Weekend: Buddha, Desire and the Middle Way (10 comments) by Levi Asher on October 2, 2010
• Howl: The Movie (10 comments) by Levi Asher on October 4, 2010
• Up From The Blue by Susan Henderson (2 comments) by Levi Asher on October 5, 2010
• Nobel Dreams (4 comments) by Levi Asher on October 6, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: My Education (7 comments) by Levi Asher on October 9, 2010
• Quaintly Prep (Again) (12 comments) by Alan Bisbort on October 12, 2010
• A Little Wget Magic: The Amazing Saga of Mark Zuckerberg (11 comments) by Levi Asher on October 13, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: KRS-One Speaks (5 comments) by Levi Asher on October 16, 2010
• Pondering Proust VII: Time Regained (5 comments) by Michael Norris on October 18, 2010
• Eyedea: Even Shadows Have Shadows (2 comments) by Levi Asher on October 19, 2010
• Sherlock: A Modern-Day Interpretation (6 comments) by Kelly and Allyson Nagle on October 21, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Outside of Society (7 comments) by Levi Asher on October 23, 2010
• Upski's Back: Please Don't Bomb The Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt by Levi Asher on October 25, 2010
• The Literary Life: Goodloe Byron Gives It Away (12 comments) by Levi Asher on October 26, 2010
• Why I Still Don't Trust The Republican Party ... With Or Without Tea (41 comments) by Levi Asher on October 28, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Specters of Socialism (6 comments) by Levi Asher on October 29, 2010

November 2010

• Woe Is Us: A Talk With John Reed by Finn Harvor on November 2, 2010
• Letters (2 comments) by Levi Asher on November 3, 2010
• An Unlikely Cocktail: Mixing Pop and Bourbon in the Palace of Versailles (10 comments) by Claudia Moscovici on November 5, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: A Pragmatist's Vocabulary (9 comments) by Levi Asher on November 6, 2010
• CrimeStars: Ten Prophets of the Golden Age of Ultraviolence (11 comments) by Garrett Kenyon on November 8, 2010
• Al Jaffee's Mad, Sad Life (7 comments) by Eli Stein on November 11, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: A Pragmatist's Vocabulary, Continued (5 comments) by Levi Asher on November 14, 2010
• Jay-Z at the New York Public Library (9 comments) by Levi Asher on November 16, 2010
• The Sea of Possibilities (3 comments) by Levi Asher on November 17, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: The Bridges of New York City (5 comments) by Levi Asher on November 20, 2010
• On The Edge With Daniel Pinchbeck (8 comments) by Dan Barth on November 22, 2010
• Remembering Joey Ramone: A Talk With Mickey Leigh by Levi Asher on November 23, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Kim Jong-Il and the Loony Way Out (12 comments) by Levi Asher on November 27, 2010
• Still Down So Long: Appreciating Richard Farina (14 comments) by April Rose Schneider on November 29, 2010

December 2010

• Bookshop Memories: The Liberty Lobby (4 comments) by Alan Bisbort on December 1, 2010
• Under Worlds (1 comment) by Levi Asher on December 2, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: The Pointless Rationalism of David Foster Wallace (17 comments) by Levi Asher on December 4, 2010
• Beat Reflections (4 comments) by Levi Asher on December 6, 2010
• Keith Richards's Book and Other Good Stuff (8 comments) by Levi Asher on December 8, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: On Extreme Wealth, Identity and Taxes (5 comments) by Levi Asher on December 12, 2010
• Proust's Lost Time: Beyond The Madeleines (3 comments) by Michael Norris on December 13, 2010
• Vision in Combray: Proust Beyond the Madeleines Concluded (12 comments) by Michael Norris on December 13, 2010
• A Pooter Revery (8 comments) by Levi Asher on December 14, 2010
• Philosophy Weekend: Captain Beefheart's Innocent Soul (10 comments) by Levi Asher on December 18, 2010
• The Wind-Up (9 comments) by Levi Asher on December 21, 2010
• Janine Pommy Vega (2 comments) by Levi Asher on December 23, 2010
• Action Poetry 2010 by Levi Asher on December 24, 2010

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