Last Call

Congrats to Oliver de la Paz for winning the Akron Poetry Prize. His book, titled Requiem for the Orchard, will be out in spring ’10! Woo hoo!


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Caught the end of the movie The Wonder Boys with Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, and Robert Downey Jr. One of the few movies about writers that I like. Of course, it’s not really about writing—it’s the engine that drives the story.


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And now, I’m watching the Venus Williams battle it out at the U.S. Open. It’s just the first round. She really should be mopping the floor with her opponent, not going three sets at 10:30 p.m.


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Love this.


"I’m both an entrepreneur and a brand," he said. "Being in the center of my universe is important to me. That’s what Twitter lets me do. . . . I want to get out in front of the conversation."


~MC Hammer at a conference on social media at Harvard.


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Thank you, Jan!

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