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The New Anonymous. The plan is to publish an annual literary magazine where, through only a few hoops, your work will be submitted, edited, and published anonymously. Just send it to some Mad Maxian character named The Mediator, and he will essentially just forward it to a bunch of people who won’t know if it’s Thomas Pynchon or some nerdy grad student. Of course, you can easily be completely anonymous, even to the moderator, with some random Hotmail address with a 420 in the name. So yes, this rules. But the only problem is that you will be anonymous. Would you be willing to send in your best work if no one will ever know you did it? Would you be willing to send anything at all?

A bunch of British poets are arguing about British poetry. I have never heard of anything more boring.

I just remembered this cartoon Bravestar from when I was a kid. I didn’t remember Bravestar being of the Native-American persuasion, or that his horse shot a rifle, but I’m glad to finally know that it’s “Ears of a wolf” and not puma.

You know what I love more than rehashed book ideas? Ones that are only available on a video where you first have to watch an advertisement. Also, Jay Rayner looks like Gene Simmons.

The first story was from The Millions, and the one right below is from Sarah Weinman. Also, this is the third one of these I did today in case you missed them. Not the slave one, though. That was Ms. Jaime.

David Ulin talks about the reviews he has regretted in twenty years of book critiquing. He says that while he gave a great review to Simple Passion, he read it wrong and felt awful. I empathize after knowing Bravestar’s horse shot a rifle.

And finally, Mark Sarvas is not getting divorced but rather reading the ugliest book of the year for a review. So to prep Mark is reading as many Roth books as he can. But wait, there’s more. He’s also going to outline the process of his review to show how it’s done. Will it suck? I want to say definitely but Mark’s detailing of the arduous publishing process for Harry, Revised was enthralling so I’m interested to see what he’s got for us.

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