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Lauren's In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood Virtue will be released on September 7, 2009.

Carolyn has been granted a 3 week artist's residency in August at Skaftell in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland - a small vibrant coastal town on the Eastern Fjords. She is excited at this chance to return to work in the lingering twilight of the Icelandic summer. It is a beautiful and magical place where she hopes to continue making dark and dreamy landscapes.

Gary will be in an upcoming segment of the Cash Cab TV trivia game show on the Discovery Channel sometime this fall. It takes place in an actual cab. The comedian Ben Bailey hosts. Gary and 3 colleagues rode 50 blocks, had successful street and mobile shout-outs (asking a random person on the sidewalk for help and calling someone on the phone) and, with two strikes against them, made it to their destination having won $1,400. They went for the video bonus double-or-nothing question at the end, and won it, doubling their money to $2,800.

Tanya's film Our City of Dreams had its Theatrical Premiere on February 4-17, 2009 at New York City's Film Forum.

Michele Battiste is thrilled to announce the release of her first full-length collection! You can check out Ink for an Odd Cartography here:
http://www.blacklawrencepress.com/

Jonathan says you can PRE-ORDER forthcoming book, "The Audacity of Greed: Free Markets, Corporate Thieves, and the Looting of America" at the following site: http://www.amazon.com/Audacity-Greed-Markets-Corporate-Thieves/dp/193543...

Emily Doolittle has moved to Seattle to teach music theory and composition at Cornish College of the Arts. She has just finished a three month birdsong research trip to Scotland where she worked on a paper on hermit thrush song.

Michael Korie's new musical "Happiness" , with book by John Weidman and music by Scott Frankel, opened March 30 at The Mitzi Newhouse at Lincoln Center Theater.

Maddy is happy to announce the completion of “The Ruins.” It is a limited edition digital version of the unique hard cover, hand printed and carved rubber stamp artist’s book that was commissioned by the Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts.

Roxana Ruth Sharlet, 8 pounds and 3 ounces, 19 inches tall, born just after midnight, April 1, 2009.

"She has her mother's eyes, my nose, and she was born looking backwards, so maybe she'll be a historian like Julie. She was a week overdue and only delivered under duress, so maybe she'll be chronically late like her father. We know she'll be wonderful, because she already is."

Judith Tannenbaum has a piece in Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose. Published by City Lights Foundation.
http://www.sfartscommission.org/WC/

Vestal's new novel, Lake Overturn, is available through http://www.vestalmcintyre.com/.

Jane has published Shoot Me While I'm Happy: Memories From the Tap Goddess of the Lower East Side. Available at janegoldberg.org.

Old Port Records has released The Thinking Heart CD, an original arrangement of Etty Hillesum’s journal and letters, constellated as poems by Martin Steingesser. Etty Hillesum was a Dutch woman who died in the Holocaust. Listen to a short feature, with excerpts from The Thinking Heart: http://martinsteingesser.com/programs.php).

Peter's first novel, Life Goes to the Movies, was published in April, 2009.

Stuart's memoir Are There Genes For Anarchism was published in March 2009.

Eve's book We Used to Own the Bronx: Memoirs of a Former Debutante is available from SUNY Press.

Vincent's "At the New York Public Library, I Heard Derek Walcott Dismiss the Prose
Poem" has been chosen by David Wagoner for The Best American Poetry 2009.

Jason's Wonderland won this year’s Best Photography Book Award in Pictures of the Year International. This is a premiere award for POYi that comes with a $500 cash award and Tiffany crystal trophy.

Phillip Meyer's novel, American Rust, (the culmination of 13 years of hard work), was published in February. Amazon picked it as a Best Book of the Month. The bestselling writer Patricia Cornwell compared him to Ernest Hemingway in both the New York Times and the UK’s Guardian.