Monday, January 26, 2009

Maximilian on MySpace: Der Traum einer Krone, A Musical by Konrad and Wolfgang Ratz

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Listen and see the videos on MySpace . (Konrad Ratz is one of the leading Maximilian scholars. His latest book, a magnificent series of essa...

Davos, Ho

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Get the Davos tweets: http://twitter.com/davos

Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America by Gail Pool

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Highly recommended . (Pair it with Gabriel Zaid's The Secret of Fame: The Literary Encounter in an Age of Distraction . Then take some A...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Follow Madam Mayo on Twitter

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Why do so many people seem to, in the words of writer Gina Hyams , "totally heart Twitter "? (And why, pray tell, do so many use i...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Obama on Mexico

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Here's an old op-ed in the Dallas Morning News , worth revisiting.
Monday, January 19, 2009

Owl Visits Torre Mayor, Mexico City

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Just the other day.

W.D. Snodgrass, Rest in Peace

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An extraordinary poet has passed on .
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Obama's Social Media Toolkit

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Yes, Obama is charismatic, yes, I voted for him, but I do not believe he would have come anywhere near overcoming the Clinton Juggernaut had...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

William Wells: "A Court Ball at the Palace of Mexico" from Overland Monthly

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Now on-line, the classic article . It's been listed on the Maximilian page, of course. More anon.
Friday, January 16, 2009

Julie Wakeman-Linn on How to Create Your Own Writing Retreat

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Wise advice. Read it in full at Work-in-Progress .