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Can you believe this shit? Can you believe he's STILL writing about the new yorker and jonathan safran foer? Why does he always have to genuflect to this hipster shit? Why doesn't he just move to new york already? Doesn't he realize there are other magazines and other writers out there? Or has he just not read any of them? Or... And...

Just wanted to get you guys started.

Posted by christopher Frizzelle | September 20, 2007 11:46 AM
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ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz

What's Dan doing right now? Why don't you go hang out in his office and giggle or something.

Posted by Did you hear about my promotion? | September 20, 2007 12:02 PM
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Paul Muldoon is tough for me. I actually like his prose a great deal, but his poetry can get tiresomely druidic. I assume it's in response to Heaney's more plain-spoken fare.

Posted by MvB | September 20, 2007 12:26 PM
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Does this mean fewer celebrity poetasters like Patti Smith and Joni Mitchell will get their poems in the magazine, or more?

Posted by --MC | September 20, 2007 12:41 PM
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Too raised pinkie for me. Is this the direction the Stranger will be going?

Posted by barbara | September 20, 2007 12:47 PM
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That Joni Mitchell poem was one of the worst poems of all time. For a preview of what the New Yorker's poetry under Paul Muldoon will look like, see the Best American Poetry he edited in 2005, which is full of, well, all the same people who are always in the New Yorker anydamnway. Though no Joni Mitchell.

Posted by Travis | September 20, 2007 12:49 PM
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Yeah, but Paul Muldoon RULES. He's like some kind of freaky scientist. The only way something like the Joni Mitchell, uh, 'poem', would be published under him is as some kind of performance art gesture. Which maybe it was anyway. Hmm. Nah...

Posted by Grant Cogswell | September 20, 2007 1:08 PM
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"He's the poetry man." That would be kinda dumb and stuff.

Posted by there once was a man from nantucket | September 20, 2007 5:55 PM
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Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the most important young Jewish writers in America today. These Seattle idiots are not smart enough to read Safran Foer, and should stick to their goyium comic books.

Kudos to The Stranger for writing about important literature and visual art in this philistine town. I love going to hear Jewish writers speak, and the Stranger events boasting Jewish artists like Safran Foer and Miranda July raised the culture level in this town to a high level.

Posted by issur | September 20, 2007 8:42 PM
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i get the new yorker for the comics. god forbid i have to read the poetry. and it sucks since tina stopped editing it.

Posted by me | September 20, 2007 10:01 PM
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OK, issur, what the fuck, you love Jews, we get it. BTW, it's 'g-o-y-i-m'. You can have my Jewish Quarter if you want, I've been trying to get in on that worldwide conspiracy stuff for years and I'm getting nowhere with it.

How did you know Miranda July was Jewish?

Posted by Grant Cogswell | September 20, 2007 10:19 PM

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