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		<title>Billy Collins at Strand</title>
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Lovely evening at a Billy Collins reading at Strand.
On whether or not he&#8217;ll ever write prose:
&#8220;No.&#8221;
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&#8220;No one asks prose writers if they&#8217;ll ever write poetry.&#8221;
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&#8220;Poetry is a bird, prose is a potato.&#8221;

PS &#8211; My blog is back up, after a several month struggle/confusion with hosting.
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		<link>http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2012/02/02/billy-collins-at-strand/</link>
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		<title>My 26th Year in iPhone photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a small sample of my 26th year, exclusively from iPhone photos. 
Hover over the photo or click through to Flickr to see the very short or unhelpful titles they might have. 























































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		<link>http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2011/09/23/my-26th-year-in-iphone-photos/</link>
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		<title>New Additions to the TBR Pile(s) 9/5/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My TBR list is always hundreds of titles long, but here&#8217;s a peek at some of the books that I could not leave behind at the bookstore most recently:


Yoga for People Who Can&#8217;t Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer: I brought this travel/memoir at Brooklyn Flea, because I&#8217;m currently reading &#38; am obsessed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2011/09/05/new-additions-to-the-tbr-piles-9511/</link>
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		<title>Teaser Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The power of saying good night each night to Lena is great. On the first night that Lena was gone, Vaclav said good night to her, put the good night out into the scary, lonely darkness, and meant each word in a very specific way. Good night. Good night. He wanted her to have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2011/07/12/teaser-tuesday-23/</link>
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		<title>Hi Hello</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello there. I blinked my eyes and suddenly it&#8217;s July. Suddenly it&#8217;s the middle of summer. Suddenly it&#8217;s been months since I&#8217;ve last posted here. Suddenly!
(The word &#8220;suddenly&#8221; reminds me of one of my favorite poems &#8220;Tension&#8221; by Billy Collins. You can read it online here.)
My life has changed quite a bit this year, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2011/07/10/hi-hello/</link>
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		<title>Teaser &#8230; Sunday?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a line in a book makes you laugh out loud in a very high volume, it deserves to be posted. :)
Mrs. Next came back into the room. &#8220;You never told me you&#8217;d bought a gold-plated toilet.&#8221;
Landon frowned. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a gold-plated toilet.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, dear,&#8221; said Mrs. Next. &#8220;I think I&#8217;ve just peed in your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2011/03/20/teaser-sunday/</link>
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		<title>A New Home for My Books (and me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning of March, I moved myself, my books, and my life from Hoboken to Brooklyn. If you noticed that I haven&#8217;t posted in over a month, this is why. :) It turns out that it takes a great deal of time and effort to prepare for a move, move, and settle in after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2011/03/13/a-new-home-for-my-books-and-me/</link>
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		<title>In honor of Charles Dickens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the birthday of Charles Dickens, I&#8217;d like to share a passage from one of his novels. This passage is one of my most favorite in all of literature (that I&#8217;ve read so far).
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These observations, and indeed the greater part of the observations made  that evening, were interrupted by Mrs. Micawber&#8217;s discovering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2011/02/07/in-honor-of-charles-dickens/</link>
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		<title>13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I buy vintage photo lots from Etsy. I love flipping through old photos of people or places I&#8217;ve never known. If it&#8217;s a person, I like to imagine what his/her life was like at the moment the photo was taken. I&#8217;ve scanned some of the photos I&#8217;ve collected, and posted them here to show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2011/02/06/13-rue-therese-by-elena-mauli-shapiro/</link>
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		<title>Polysyllabic Spree &#8211; December 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Books Purchased: (or acquired)

Role Models by John Waters
 It&#8217;s a Good Life if You Don&#8217;t Weaken by Seth
 Tess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Christmas present)
 The Heroine&#8217;s Bookshelf by Erin Blakemore  (Christmas present)
 Tales of Belkin by Alexander Pushkin  (Christmas present)
 More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
 Travels With Alice by [...]]]></description>
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