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		<title>Better Off Dead: Coffin Factory’s Issue Two Launch Party at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Michael Signorelli, Adam’s editor and beer rest; Adam Wilson, writer, Faster Times editor, mean-mugger; Sarah Rapp, Adam’s girlfriend and community manager at Behance; and Amanda Bullock, the Housing Works events director who brought these lit-loving beer-drinkers together. 2. Joe, Penguin representative, Tiffany, book blogger, and Robert, tie-wearing MTA employee who couldn’t tell me when I’ll be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRITICAL HIT AWARDS: February 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to the Critical Hit Awards for book reviews. This is a round-up, a recommended reading list, and—why not?—a terribly prestigious and coveted prize. Nominate your favorite review of the month by tweeting it at @electriclit with the hashtag #criticalhit or cast your vote in the comments section below. &#160; Hard to believe, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Reading! StoryCorps at Greenlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Never seen so many people at a reading that didn’t advertise free wine. Sweet. 2. Isaac Kestenbaum, Mike Dougherty, Kate Brown, Kira Limer, and Sylvie Lubow, all wonderful people from StoryCorps and old regulars from the cafe I worked at next door. Hi!   Last night something happened at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum (But Don’t Spill it on Me Book): Sara Levine’s Treasure Island!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Happy buccaneers milling around the rum punch.  2. Sara Levine in the swashbuckling act of READING!   Way to go for WORD of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Last night’s Treasure Island!!! event kicked off the month of February with rum, adventure, and the American sensibility of self-improvement! And yes, that’s Treasure Island with three exclamation points—author Sara [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction Addiction &#8212; That&#8217;s Some Good $hi*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. John, a photographer, &#38; Lacey, a bartender, going back to the LES after feeling withdrawals from their recent move to Brooklyn. 2. As Brad Listi would say: &#8220;It&#8217;s a book, you can read it, oh my god.&#8221;   I&#8217;d been hearing some buzz around the new(ish) reading series Fiction Addiction, but had failed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electricliterature.com/blog/2012/02/02/fiction-addiction-thats-some-good-hi/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fiction-addiction-thats-some-good-hi</link>
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		<title>FEBRUARY MIX by Emma Straub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Songs That I Play Really Loud So No One Else Can Hear Me Cry Is there anything better than a sad love song? I&#8217;ve checked&#8211;there isn&#8217;t. Here is a brief list of some of my all-time favorites to get you through Valentine&#8217;s Day, whether or not you&#8217;ve got a date. Each and every one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electricliterature.com/blog/2012/02/01/february-mix-by-emma-straub/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=february-mix-by-emma-straub</link>
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		<title>POSTSCRIPT: A letter from Samuel Morse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each month in Postscript, Anna Knoebel revisits letters from prominent writers and other artists to revive the dying art of letter writing. Anna is the editor and co-publisher of Abe’s Penny, a magazine of arts and literature delivered in the form of postcards. &#160; With our easy access to instant messenger and video chat, it&#8217;s hard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electricliterature.com/blog/2012/01/30/postscript-a-letter-from-samuel-morse/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=postscript-a-letter-from-samuel-morse</link>
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		<title>Boy With a Blog in His Side – Largehearted Lit’s 10th Anniversary at WORD Brooklyn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. WORD’s “Vandalized by Author” wall. There weren’t any phone numbers. 2. Jen Gillmore, Dead Heads, joints.   David Gutowski, of Largehearted Boy and most recently Book Boroughing, describes himself on his Twitter bio as such: “I read and write and listen to music. A lot.” This is all you really need to know about Gutowski and his blog, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electricliterature.com/blog/2012/01/27/boy-with-a-blog-in-his-side-%e2%80%93-largehearted-lit%e2%80%99s-10th-anniversary-at-word-brooklyn/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=boy-with-a-blog-in-his-side-%25e2%2580%2593-largehearted-lit%25e2%2580%2599s-10th-anniversary-at-word-brooklyn</link>
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		<title>LAST NIGHT&#8217;S LIT PARTY&#8230; Bookforum Release Party!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Mike Winston works at The Barbarian Group and takes his Scotch on the rocks. 2. Cheers!  Amy Bryant, blogger and budding PR maven. 3. Literature as bar napkin.    &#160; Wednesday night marked the latest of Bookforum&#8216;s increasingly notorious Issue Release parties, this one at Hotel Americano.  I&#8217;d never seen the hotel before (hell, I&#8217;d never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electricliterature.com/blog/2012/01/27/last-nights-lit-party-bookforum-release-party/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=last-nights-lit-party-bookforum-release-party</link>
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		<title>BEYOND BOOKS: The 12th Annual Edwardian Ball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beyond Books is based on the premise that “leading a literary life” is not only about reading and writing and editing and solitude; it’s about complete cultural immersion and exploring the language of every lived experience. San Francisco freaks and geeks who like to play dress-up and waltz beyond the midnight hour celebrated the macabre [...]]]></description>
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