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- Anecdotal Evidence blog
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- Counterpoint Press
- Cyrano's Online Journal
- Damn the Caesars, Richard Owens's blog
- Eyedrum / Art Music Atlanta
- Five Points magazine (Atlanta)
- Flying Pig, Folding Chair poetry blog
- Hyperborea, La poesia moderna poetry blog
- Keroauc Alley website
- Language Hat website
- LibraryThing website
- Literary Kicks
- Literary Stamps blog
- n+1 magazine website
- Nomadics: Pierre Joris's blog
- Other Minds website of new music & spoken word
- Oxford American magazine
- Pepy's Diary online
- Poetry Atlanta
- Quick Study: Scott McLemee's Arts Journal blog
- Raintaxi Review of Books website
- RealityStudio, a William S Burroughs Community
- Right Reading website of Tom Christensen
- Terry Southern official website
- The Art of American Book Covers
- The Blue Lantern arts journalism blog
- The Jargon Society (webpage of poet/publisher Jonathan Williams)
- The Modern Word website
- The Paris Review magazine
- The Postcard Project
- The Southeast Review
- The Strand Bookstore
- The Wag website
- U B U W E B writing & sound website
- Vinson Gallery
- wood s lot website
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- M Bromberg
- Atlanta, GA
- What happens to books after you read them? Do books go back on the shelf along with their ideas, or do they get read time and again -- a familiar quote here, a favorite passage recalled -- until their contents become as known as the worn dust jacket and the color of a gold-leafed spine? And how do you store words and ideas on the web after you've read those? Do they come as easily to the mind as the book that catches the eye comes to the hand? Human memory, no matter how imperfect it is, still has an advantage over the internet. Although the ones-and-zeroes can still beat the half-remembered idea (they're a glory of precision, down to the placement of a comma), even a drowsily half-remembered book can lead you back to the actual page, the pencil-mark added for emphasis, that original moment of surprise. Chances are you'll still repeat the phrase you remember as you drift to your sleep. Let the web be the great guardian of books: the exact phrase and the precise paragraph, the comma and the quotation-mark. The internet can remember a million books with its infinite ones-and-zeroes, but has it ever actually read one?
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