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September 26, 2012 | 1

“‘Rap is poetry,’ Jay-Z says, ‘and a good MC is a good poet.'” Over at n + 1, a look at the musician’s Decoded and the phenomenon of rappers as writers.

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Two books for $22 at Open Letter

Curiosities
October 17, 2009

To celebrate their thirteen-month anniversary, Open Letter Books is having a sale. Buy any two books from their catalog for $22, and you are also entered to win a free subscription for a full year of their titles. Don’t know where to start? Their books include Vilnius Poker, touted as the preeminent Lithuanian novel of the past twenty years, as well as Dubravka Ugresic’s formidable collection of essays, Nobody’s Home.

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