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A (much better) Jeff Garlin book club meeting

by Morgan on June 11, 2011

Jeff Garlin’s book club met at Book Soup last night, to discuss Tim O’Brien’s Tomcat in Love. Full disclosure: Jeff and I got together yesterday to talk about hosting strategies, and review some potential discussion questions. So it’s with both (…)

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Russell + Silverblatt / Reading as a drug

by Morgan on May 31, 2011

Last Wednesday night I went to the Hammer to see Karen Russell and Salvatore Scibona. I got a seat in the front row, and pre-show, was eavesdropping on a conversation that Aimee Bender (seated behind me) was having with another (…)

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Finishing a novel

by Morgan on January 29, 2011

The first adult novel I read was Flowers for Algernon. My brother had read it in school and told me I should read it too, so I went and found it at the public library. I remember feeling that this (…)

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