Episode 51: Mailbag Show, with David James Poissant

Published: June 2, 2013, 5:03 a.m.

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On this week\\u2019s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant,

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David James Poissant

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Plus Cathy Day Addresses The Man Who Called Her On the Phone\\xa0Asking for Advice About How to Get Published.

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Cathy Day

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Notes

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Cathy Day\'s essay first appeared on her blog, right\\xa0here.

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If you are in Central Florida on June 16th, come celebrate\\xa0Bloomsday\\xa0with us!

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Bloomsday 2013

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Book Fight\'s Exceedingly Accurate Blurb:

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\\u201cThe Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life\\xa0is a supernova, an interstellar jamboree of colors and lights, like the twirling dresses of a troupe of champion folk dancers, like being imprisoned in Ace Freeley\\u2019s amp, throbbing like the veins in Jehovah\\u2019s hard-on.\\xa0 You can look, but you can\\u2019t touch, and also, you can\\u2019t look, because if you do, you will turn to stone, and your guts will turn to marble.\\u201d

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According to\\xa0The Times, there was controversy over the spelling of the word that won the national spelling bee championship. \\xa0Is this anti-semitic orthography?

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