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Literary Kicks

http://www.litkicks.com

Litblog focusing on postmodern fiction, spoken word poetry, alternative and experimental literature of all kinds.

• Added on: Jun 13th, 2005
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Listed in: Books Writing Independent Publishing
• Tags: news poetry Film fiction television new york times book review

Recent Posts

• Advancing the Darkness: Five Modern Masters of Mystery and Crime

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 15:38 in reviews, Mystery, fiction

  (Please welcome a new contributor to LitKicks, Garrett Kenyon, a writer from Kansas City who can be reached at garrettkenyon@yahoo.com. The illustration is by Clayton Douglas. — Levi) Poe, Chandler, Hammett … even casual readers have he...

• Reviewing the Review: November 22 2009

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 14:18 in sports, history, biography, new york times book review

  Ben Yagoda, author of a new book called Memoir: A History, recently caused a splash by declaring that fiction has been replaced by memoir as the most important literary form, that “when it comes to proving points and making cases, fiction’...

• Thursday Thoughts

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 18:49 in religion, politics, music, news, french, classics, visual art, internet culture, being a writer, beat generation, existential

  1. This expressionist portrait of Joyce Carol Oates is one of many interpretations of modern authors by Swedish artist Carl Kohler, who died in 2006. 2. If you prefer cute to modern expressionist, here’s John Pupdike on Etsy. 3. Sarah Palin...

• GATHERING

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 07:13 in the memoir

  (This is chapter 41 of 46 in my ongoing memoir of the Internet industry.) I spent the days after September 11, 2001 in Queens with the kids, or near the World Trade Center site wishing anybody needed my help. I suddenly had a lot of free time every ...

• Pondering Proust III: Guermantes Way

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 14:15 in love, Jewish, french, history

  (Note: This article continues our study of the individual volumes that make up Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”. ”The Guermantes Way” is quite lengthy, consisting of two very large chapters, so we will cover e...

• Reviewing the Review: November 15 2009

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 14:40 in Poker, fiction, publishing, new york times book review

  The New York Times Book Review could surely have found someone who knows something about poker — say, me — to review James McManus’s Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker. Some common tipoffs that a writer doesn’t know anything abo...

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darkspark

great resource. many ideas to inspire writing.

Posted: January 5th, 2009 | More Reviews From dadaism | Report This Comment

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