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READING
TLR contributor ERSI SOTIROPOULOS is in New York City this week to read from her new book Landscape with Dog and Other Stories. Tuesday, February 9 at 6 p.m. at the NYU Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 1 Washington Place (at Broadway). And on Thursday, February 11, at 6:30 p.m. at Book Culture, 536 West 112th Street (info. 212-865-1588).

The THERAPY! Issue Now Available

We promise, it won't cure you!
The allure of pure madness aside, writers tend to place themselves on the neurotic end of the sanity spectrum. We are all casting our dreams as word pictures, building castles for our inner child, and, as Frank Bidart would say, still wrestling with Mother.

Featuring Bruce Cohen, Mary Rose O'Reilley, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Chris Gavaler, Peter Kocan, and H. L. Hix in conversation with Frank Bidart.

Many thanks to our amazing cover artists Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz. Show them you love them as much as we do by supporting their work!

New York Public Library Magathon

Leading literary magazine editors--including our esteemed editor Minna Proctor--read favorite selections from their latest issues at this celebration of literary magazines and independent publishing.

Pushcart Nominations

We are proud to announce TLR's nominations for the 2010 prize.
Poetry:
Catherine Doty, "Breathing Under Water"
Mary Rose O'Reilley, "Confession"
Bruce Cohen, "Divine Wow:"

Fiction:
Kelly Cherry, "Her Life To Come"
Chris Gavaler, "The Marriage of the Strawman and the Patchwork Girl"
Robert Repino, "We Have the Answer to the Apocalypse"

Pig Out on Words Without Borders

Fill that bland void between Thanksgiving and Christmas with the wonderful Words Without Borders site. Check out the thought-provoking graphic story "The Pig," which originally appeared in TLR's Italian Fiction issue from Fall 2005.

Chris Arthur's essay "(En)trance" selected for Best American Essays

Congratulations to Chris Arthur, whose piece "(En)trance," which appeared in TLR's Winter 2008 issue, has been selected for The Best American Essays, edited by Mary Oliver.

Thomas Reiter's Catchment published