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Culturally Speaking #15

By Sarah Stodola

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The young literary journal Topic Magazine has compiled quite an impressive list of contributors for a publication that doesn't pay its writers.

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Restaurants in New York, off the top of my head, that have lived up to their considerable reputations: Nobu, Craftbar, Bond Street, Grimaldi's, Magnolia Bakery.

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It has occurred to me that despite the romantic notion of the starving poet, I have never actually met anyone who was seriously and actively aspiring to be a poet.  And then on the other hand, poetry is being published everywhere these days.

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Fascination with Virginia Woolf never ends.

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I have been finding particularly good deals on flights lately.  It seems like a very nice time to book a vacation.  Or maybe I've just been getting lucky.

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I was surprised to see so many Starbucks in London.  But now, the first one has opened in Paris, which is so strange in so many ways.

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I've just been given a new cubicle at work.  To personalize it will be to acknowledge that I might be there for awhile.  To leave it as is will mean risking spending eight hours per day in a really drab place for the next year, at least...

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Literary Theory is dead?  I like the part in this essay about getting back to finding personal meaning through reading, instead of deconstructing everything in such a clinical fashion.

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Terribly sorry for the brevity this week; I am still trying to work out this thesis/writing/work thing.

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Sarah Stodola is the Managing Editor of Me Three.  She can be contacted at [email protected].

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