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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

David LettermanJason Headley
James Joyce + Virgil ~ Ivan Argüelles
SophoclesAaron Sunshine
Blake Butler ~ Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Robert Duncan ~ Jack and Adelle Foley
Flannery O’Connor ~ Joshua Braff
Joan Didion ~ Brigid M. Hughes
Fela Kuti ~ M.C. K~Swift

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Sara Mumolo ~ Candace Eros Diaz
Ursula K. Le Guin ~ Deborah K. Steinberg
Renata Adler ~ Kate Folk
Luis Bunuel ~ Michael Bucuzzo
Roque Dalton ~ Tongo Eisen-Martin

Thursday, March 19, 2015

James JoyceJoe Loya
Anne Lamott + ShaggyAllison Landa
James TatePeter (Thomas) Bullen
Hollis Frampton and The Wizard of OzChristina Kolozsvary
J.J. Cale + Marc BolanChris Peck

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Italo CalvinoRobert MacFarlaneRashaan Alexis Meneses
Ken KeseyPatrick Newson
19th c. writing chest ~ Thaisa Frank
Bret Easton Ellis ~ Abbie Amadio
Tomi Ungerer ~ Joe Stillwater

Thursday, January 15, 2015

William Wordsworth ~ Jon Sindell
Shade Queens and Revolutionary Hopelessness ~ rex leonowicz
John Belushi ~ Lael Gold
Diane Lewis ~ Elizabeth Feder
Nina Simone + James Baldwin ~ Raina J. León

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Keith Jarrett, Virginia Woolf + Sharon Olds ~ Elizabeth Rosner
Gustaf Sobin ~  Cosmo Spinosa
Rita Moreno ~ Sandra Garcia Rivera
Beastie Boys ~ Evan Kenward
Jack Kerouac ~ Stephanie McKenzie

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Stéphane Mallarmé ~ Steven Gray
Carole Maso ~ Madison Davis
Andrea Gibson + W.G. Sebald ~ Katia Noyes
Albert Einstein ~ Cheja
Charles Bukowski ~ Norman Zelaya

Friday, October 24th 2014

Steve Martin ~ Jaime Cortez
Li-Young Li, Sonia Sanchez, and Michael Dickman ~ Christine No
Ana Mendieta + Samuel Beckett ~ The Third Thing
Murdo MacDonald Bayne ~ Michael Disend
Donald Justice ~ Koon Woon

Friday, September 26th 2014

Lisa Robertson ~ Joel Gregory
The Last Poets ~ Michael Warr
Alice Adams ~ Fia Maxwell
Wundercabinet ~ Penina Eilberg-Schwartz + July Westhale
Kurst Schwitters ~ Matt Gonzalez

Friday, August 22nd 2014

Aaron Shurin ~ Micah Ballard
Afaa Michael Weaver ~ Vernon Keeve III
John Berger ~ Tessa Micaela
Susan Sontag ~ Emji Spero
Henry Dumas ~ D. Scott Miller

Friday, July 25th 2014

Henry James (Patrick James Dunagan)
Kevin Canty (Turner Capehart Canty)
Italo Calvino (Candy Shue)
Emily Dickinson (Zack Haber)
Bei Dao (Bill Hughes)

Friday, June 27th 2014

Alice Notley (David Welper)
John Cage, Morton Feldman + Marcel Duchamp (Ava Koohbor)
Aimee Bender (Sarah Bushman)
Richard Serra (Liam Curley)
Brenda Hillman (Ava Sayaka Rosen)

Friday, May 23rd 2014

Laura Walker (Sarah Heady)
René Depestre (Derek Fenner)
Albertus Seba (Lindsey Englehardt)
Rick Moody (Erin Ginder-Shaw)
The Zohar (Alana Siegel)

Friday, April 25th 2014

Frank O’Hara (Chloé Veylit)
Sextus Propertius (Brandon Brown)
Roberto Bolaño (Melissa R. Sipin)
Glenn Kotche + Harryette Mullen (Maggie Heaps Lauffer)
Duncan McNaughton + Nathaniel Mackey (Sunnylyn Thibodeaux)

Friday, March 28th 2014

Truman Capote (Jill Tydor)
Harry Crews (Jason Morris)
Agnes Martin (Jane Gregory)
Jean Du ChasAlejandro Jodorowsky + Alfred North Whitehead (David Vandeloo)
Lidia Yuknavitch (Bel Poblador)

Friday, February 28th 2014

Sherman Alexie (Liz Mayorga)
Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground (Menlo Macfarlane)
George Herbert (Evan Kennedy)
Etel Adnan (Nanor Abkarian)

Friday, January 24th 2014

Jun Togawa (Channing Kennedy)
Ludwig Wittgenstein + Thich Nhat Hanh (Jason R Jimenez)
Edmond Jabès (Simona Schneider)
Dodie Bellamy (Eric Sneathen)
Joe Bataan (Jason Bayani)

Friday, November 22nd 2013

Marcel Proust + Nanni Balestrini (Miranda Mellis)
Donna de la Perrière (Lorelei Lee)
Jennifer Moxley (Nicole Trigg)
Brian S. Ellis (Kevin DeVaney)

Friday, October 25th 2013

Michelle Tea (Carol Queen)
Jeff Mangum + Joseph Cornell (Nathan Grover)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Moneta Goldsmith)
Jackie Wang (Oki Sogumi)

Friday, September 27th 2013

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Colleen Hubbard)
Paula Vogel (Abe Becker)
William S. Burroughs (Clint Flippin)
Maggie Nelson (Amy Berkowitz)

Friday, August 23rd 2013

Brian Eno (Heather Bourbeau)
Jonathan Safran Foer (Ariana Weckstein)
Trish Salah (Zoe Tuck)
Mark Linkous (Nathan Keele Springer)
Christian Marclay + Cassandra C. Jones (Liz Worthy)

Friday, July 26th 2013

Jeanette Winterson (Jenny Bitner)
Yasiin Bey (Gabriel Cortez)
Jack Kerouac (Matthew Sherling)
Maya Deren (Brittany Billmeyer-Finn)

Friday, June 28th 2013

Minutemen (Maw Shein Win)
Christian Drake (Natasha Huey)
Naked Raygun (Daniel Suarez)
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Cheena Marie Lo)

Friday, May 24th 2013

Charles Bukowski (Alexandra Kostoulas)
W.B. Yeats (Terry Taplin)
Gil Scott Heron (Jason Schenheit)
Grace Paley (Marcus Lund)

Friday, April 26th 2013

The Mountain Goats (Lizzy Acker)
Sandra Cisneros (MK Chavez)
L.M. Montgomery (Mariama Lockington)
Carla Kihlstedt (Genine Lentine)

Friday, March 22nd 2013

William Saroyan (William Taylor Jr.)
James Agee (Toni Mirosevich)
Philip Roth (Nate Waggoner)
Johann Sebastian Bach (Stella Peach)