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NB: Alice and I (and possibly Brian?) will be at Dick & Jane’s Cocktail Bar on Adelphi St. in Brooklyn on the evening of Wed, Sept 20. Come join us!

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Storm Swimmer by Ernest Hilbert

– The iTunes/Apple Podcasts SLEERICKETS page

– The cover of my forthcoming book, Midlife, designed by Daniel

– Rattle/Rattlecast/Timothy Green (the guy we’re talking about at the beginning of the show)

– Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

– The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

– Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Laud Montgomery

– A Colorful History of Judging Books by their Covers by Ernest Hilbert

– The Shocking Novels that Scared the Hell Out of America by Ernest Hilbert

– Lupercal by Ted Hughes

– Sixty Sonnets by Ernest Hilbert

– All of You on the Good Earth Ernest Hilbert

– Caligulan by Ernest Hilbert

– Last One Out by Ernest Hilbert

– Easter Wings by George Herbert

– The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy

– Maxwell Perkins

– Wave Books

– Faber & Faber

– Matthew Wright

– The Philadelphia Sun Oil Building

– Jantech Services (makers of the Caligulan sign)

– Ernie’s introduction to Classic Tales of Horror

– The Alien title sequence

– Blizzard of One by Mark Strand

– Franco Salas Borquez

– Anamorphosis

– The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger

– The Richard Wilbur Award

– The New Criterion Poetry Prize

– Waywiser Books

– Laid paper

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

Frequent topics:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Alexis Sears

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