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Readings

Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

Same-as-that

by Dale Peck,

From a speech given in December 2011, at the New School, in New York City. Dale Peck is a novelist and critic. The first time I heard the word samizdat…

Readings

by William Eggleston,

The leftover eye

by Diane Williams,

Head of the big man

by Diane Williams,

January 13th

by Joe Brainard,

From The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, edited by Ron Padgett, published in April by the Library of America. Brainard died in 1994. Mozart is coming out of the machine—real…

With red chair

by Diane Williams,

Black smoke

Art by Sarah Anne Johnson,

Five stories

by Diane Williams,

A gray pottery head

by Diane Williams,

Girl with a pencil

by Diane Williams,

Terms and conditions

by Richard Stallman,

Bad wrap

by Harper’s Staff,

Beat to the punch

by William S. Burroughs,

Solo show

by Harper’s Staff,

Head trauma

by Harper’s Staff,

Motiv

Art by Tilo Baumgärtel,

Fit to sprint

by Judith Matloff,

What Happened in Vegas

by John D’Agata, Jim Fingal,

Copyright (c) 2012 by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal. Reprinted with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company. From The Lifespan of a Fact, by writer John D’Agata and…

Absence

Art by Bing Han,

The elusive American Century

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Narcissus and Goldmund

Art by Tai-Shan Schierenberg,

Rite Hand In

by Beáta Megyesi, Christiane Schaefer, Kevin Knight,

Transporting knowledge

Art by Paco Pomet,

America

by Yves Bonnefoy,Translated by Hoyt Rogers,

Blunder siege

by Harper’s Staff,

Anon, anon

by Harper’s Staff,

Negotiated press

by Harper’s Staff,

Duck blind, Berry Bay, Louisiana, December 2001

by Nell Campbell,

Cloak and Swagger

by Aaron Barr, Mark Trynor,

Ware

Art by Neo Rauch,

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