<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The New Mercury Readings</title>
	<atom:link href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com</link>
	<description>Nothing But the Truth</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:51:26 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='thenewmercuryreadings.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/0e1087787d3da1fb81e61971eb126934?s=96&#038;d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>The New Mercury Readings</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/osd.xml" title="The New Mercury Readings" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>April 21, the Windup Space: Bill Hughes, John Stabb, Geraldine Fagan, and D.R. Belz</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/18/april-21-the-windup-space-bill-hughes-john-stabb-geraldine-fagan-and-dave-belz/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/18/april-21-the-windup-space-bill-hughes-john-stabb-geraldine-fagan-and-dave-belz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Stabb, musician and thought provoker, D.R. Belz, Baltimore writer, author of White Asparagus, Geraldine Fagan, who has just finished her book on religion in Post-Soviet Russia, and Bill Hughes, photographer, writer, longshoreman, movie actor, and chronicler of our times, &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/18/april-21-the-windup-space-bill-hughes-john-stabb-geraldine-fagan-and-dave-belz/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2193&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="John Stabb, on the 21st!" href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/john-stabb-on-the-21st/">John Stabb</a>, musician and thought provoker, <a title="DR Belz, April 21st, at the Windup Space!!!!!" href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/2176/">D.R. Belz</a>, Baltimore writer, author of <em>White Asparagus</em>,<a title="Geraldine Fagan, Also on the 21st!!!" href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/geraldine-fagan-also-on-the-21st/"> Geraldine Fagan</a>, who has just finished her book on religion in Post-Soviet Russia, and <a title="Bill Hughes. April 21st. The Windup Space." href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/18/bill-hughes-april-21st-the-windup-space/">Bill Hughes</a>, photographer, writer, longshoreman, movie actor, and chronicler of our times, will all be gathering at the Windup Space this Saturday, on the 21st, at 5:30 for their respective readings of no-bullshit non-fiction! As usual, it doesn&#8217;t cost a cent, but there&#8217;s a bar, and a lot of interesting people to talk to.  And help the New Mercury nonfiction readings move into its Third Year!</p>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2193/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2193&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/18/april-21-the-windup-space-bill-hughes-john-stabb-geraldine-fagan-and-dave-belz/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Bill Hughes. April 21st. The Windup Space.</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/18/bill-hughes-april-21st-the-windup-space/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/18/bill-hughes-april-21st-the-windup-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Hughes was born in a hospital not far from the park on Federal Hill and raised in Locust Point. In his salad days, he was an amateur soccer player and a longshoreman. Bill is an attorney, professional actor [John &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/18/bill-hughes-april-21st-the-windup-space/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2189&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/billhughes.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2190" title="billhughes" src="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/billhughes.jpg?w=300&#038;h=234" alt="" width="300" height="234" /></a>Bill Hughes was born in a hospital not far from the park on Federal Hill and raised in Locust Point. In his salad days, he was an amateur soccer player and a longshoreman. Bill is an attorney, professional actor [John Waters’ comedic flick, “Pecker,” is his main claim to fame]. He is also the author of four books: one of fiction and three of essays. He has penned a column for the South Baltimore Enterprise, Baltimore Chronicle, the City Paper, Maryland Life magazine and the Irish People newspaper in New York City. Recently, Bill transformed himself into a shutterbug. He also like taking videos.</span></p>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2189/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2189&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/18/bill-hughes-april-21st-the-windup-space/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/billhughes.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">billhughes</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>D.R. Belz, April 21st, at The Windup Space.</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/2176/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/2176/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Baltimore satirist D.R. Belz is an award-winning writer who has published essays, poetry and fiction for more than 30 years in a variety of publications including the Baltimore Examiner, Baltimore Sun, Evening Sun, City Paper, the Arbutus Patch, and the Baltimore &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/2176/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2176&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:black;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:medium;"><a href="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/belz.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2204" title="belz" src="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/belz.jpg?w=500" alt=""   /></a>Baltimore satirist D.R. Belz is an award-winning writer who has published essays, poetry and fiction for more than 30 years in a variety of publications including the <em>Baltimore Examiner, Baltimore Sun, Evening Sun, City Paper</em>, the <em>Arbutus Patch</em>, and the <em>Baltimore Post-Examiner</em>. He is the author of White Asparagus (Apprentice House, 2010), a collected works.<br />
</span></span></p>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2176/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2176&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/2176/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/belz.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">belz</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Geraldine Fagan, Also on the 21st.</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/geraldine-fagan-also-on-the-21st/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/geraldine-fagan-also-on-the-21st/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Geraldine Fagan is originally from Liverpool, England, and a visiting fellow at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (Washington, D.C.). Based in Moscow, she has monitored religious affairs across Russia for over a decade, currently for Forum 18 News Service (Oslo, &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/geraldine-fagan-also-on-the-21st/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2172&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/geraldine.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image" src="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/geraldine.jpg?w=1014" alt="Image" /></a></p>
<div>Geraldine Fagan is originally from Liverpool, England, and a visiting fellow at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (Washington, D.C.). Based in Moscow, she has monitored religious affairs across Russia for over a decade, currently for <em>Forum 18 News Service</em> (Oslo, Norway). She’s also contributed to <em>The Times</em> of London, <em>The Wall Street Journal </em>and<em> The Moscow Times</em>. Her book <em>Believing in Russia – Religious Policy After Communism</em> will be published in 2012.</div>
<div></div>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2172/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2172&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/geraldine-fagan-also-on-the-21st/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/geraldine.jpg?w=1014" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Image</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>John Stabb, on the 21st.</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/john-stabb-on-the-21st/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/john-stabb-on-the-21st/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Stabb has been the voice of many bands since 1980 but may be best known as the intense and flamboyant frontman of legendary DC hardcore/punk/pop-rock band Government Issue. Following GI’s disbandment in 1989, Stabb formed such bands as Weatherhead, &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/john-stabb-on-the-21st/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2167&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/jstabblater.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-2168" title="30th anniversary celebration of The Big Takeover, day 1" src="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/jstabblater.jpg?w=250&#038;h=325" alt="" width="250" height="325" /></a>John Stabb has been the voice of many bands since 1980 but may be best known as the intense and flamboyant frontman of legendary DC hardcore/punk/pop-rock band Government Issue. Following GI’s disbandment in 1989, Stabb formed such bands as Weatherhead, Emmapeel, The Factory Incident and his current outfit History Repeated. He has also explored other creative outlets including writing for music publications including <em>W.D.C. Period</em> and <em>Faster and Louder</em> and acting. His music can also be heard on BMX Video and National Geographic Channel and the soundtrack of the indie film <em>My Degeneration</em>. In addition to recording and performing with his current band, Stabb is completing his memoirs which are scheduled to be published in 2013.</p>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2167/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2167&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/17/john-stabb-on-the-21st/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/jstabblater.jpg?w=225" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">30th anniversary celebration of The Big Takeover, day 1</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>New Mercury, March 31: Negligees, Older Spouses, The Upside of Unemployment, and Dead Grandmothers</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/01/new-mercury-march-31-negligees-older-spouses-the-upside-of-unemployment-and-dead-grandmothers/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/01/new-mercury-march-31-negligees-older-spouses-the-upside-of-unemployment-and-dead-grandmothers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was another great night of nonfiction from people who have written fiction, and (might) even consider themselves fictionistas. (That&#8217;s after our last reading, which featured journalists). But they took a brief moment to tell the Truth. Jane Delury offered &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/01/new-mercury-march-31-negligees-older-spouses-the-upside-of-unemployment-and-dead-grandmothers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2143&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/01/new-mercury-march-31-negligees-older-spouses-the-upside-of-unemployment-and-dead-grandmothers/#gallery-2143-1-slideshow">Click to view slideshow.</a>
<p>It was another great night of nonfiction from people who have written fiction, and (might) even consider themselves fictionistas. (That&#8217;s after our last reading, which featured journalists). But they took a brief moment to tell the Truth. <strong>Jane Delury</strong> offered a two-part reading about negligees and French ancestors. <strong>Michael Downs</strong> read out of an entertaining AARP piece about getting old, but letting your wife lead the way. <strong>Jen Grow</strong> wrote about the upside of unemployment: doing things that you shouldn&#8217;t be doing, and not getting anything done, but learning something from the process. And <strong>Chris Grillo</strong>, who notes that she always tells her class not to write about their dead grandparents, decided that her dead grandmother was <em>different. </em>And she was right. Her dead grandmother is different.</p>
<p>Come back next month, April 21st, same time, same place. We&#8217;ll be featuring <strong>Dave Belz, Geraldine Fagan, John Stabb, and Bill Hughes</strong>.</p>
<p>Thanks also to David and Bonnie for the video, which we&#8217;ll put up here. And thanks to all for showing up!</p>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2143/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2143&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/04/01/new-mercury-march-31-negligees-older-spouses-the-upside-of-unemployment-and-dead-grandmothers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>New Mercury Readings, March 31st: The Space is the Place!</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/28/new-mercury-readings-march-31st-the-space-is-the-place-2/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/28/new-mercury-readings-march-31st-the-space-is-the-place-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be back at our accustomed place at the Windup this Saturday, March 31st, at 5:30 pm, on the corner of Charles and North Avenue, with heating (which we won&#8217;t need anyway), and a bar, nice paintings on the wall, &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/28/new-mercury-readings-march-31st-the-space-is-the-place-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2138&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ll be back at our accustomed place at the Windup this Saturday, March 31st, at 5:30 pm, on the corner of Charles and North Avenue, with heating (which we won&#8217;t need anyway), and a bar, nice paintings on the wall, and free admission, and four staged and amplified nonfiction readings featuring Baltimore writers: <a title="Jen Grow, also on the 31st!" href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/28/jen-grow-also-on-the-31st/">Jen Grow,</a> <a title="Christine Grillo: March 31 at the Windup!" href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/christine-grillo-march-31-at-the-windup/">Christine Grillo</a>, <a title="Jane Delury: Reading at the Windup, March 31st" href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/jane-delury-reading-at-the-windup-march-31st/">Jane Delury</a>, and <a title="Michael Downs: Saturday March 31 at the Windup!" href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/michael-downs-saturday-march-31-at-the-windup/">Michael Downs</a>. And popcorn! Read more about these writers below, and we look forward to seeing you there! Just kidding about the popcorn. But these readers are great.</p>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2138/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2138&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/28/new-mercury-readings-march-31st-the-space-is-the-place-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Jen Grow, also on the 31st!</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/28/jen-grow-also-on-the-31st/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/28/jen-grow-also-on-the-31st/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jen Grow is the Fiction Editor of the arts and literary journal, Little Patuxent Review. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, Other Voices, The Sun Magazine, The GSU Review, Hunger Mountain, Indiana Reviewand many others including the anthology City &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/28/jen-grow-also-on-the-31st/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2135&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/jen4.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2136" title="Jen~4" src="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/jen4.jpg?w=192&#038;h=300" alt="" width="192" height="300" /></a>Jen Grow is the Fiction Editor of the arts and literary journal, <em>Little Patuxent Review</em>. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in <em>The Writer’s Chronicle, Other Voices, The Sun Magazine, The GSU Review, Hunger Mountain, Indiana Review</em>and many others including the anthology <em>City Sages: Baltimore</em> (CityLit Press, 2010). She co-authored the book,<em>Seeking the Spirit</em> (Morehouse Publishing, 2006) with Harry Brunett. She’s received two Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and her stories have earned nominations for Best New American Voices and a Pushcart Prize. Her story collection, <em>O.K., Goodbye</em>, was shortlisted for the St. Lawrence Book Award, the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Fiction and the Spokane Prize.</p>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2135/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2135&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/28/jen-grow-also-on-the-31st/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/jen4.jpg?w=192" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Jen~4</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Jane Delury: Reading at the Windup, March 31st</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/jane-delury-reading-at-the-windup-march-31st/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/jane-delury-reading-at-the-windup-march-31st/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane Delury’s fiction has appeared in The 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Southern Review,  Narrative, and other publications.  Her essay was anthologized in My Word! Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe (Sarabande).  She is on the faculty of &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/jane-delury-reading-at-the-windup-march-31st/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2125&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/img_00742.jpg"><img class="wp-image alignleft" src="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/img_00742.jpg?w=219&#038;h=146" alt="Image" width="219" height="146" /></a>Jane Delury’s fiction has appeared in <em>The 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories</em>, <em>The Southern Review</em>,  <em>Narrative</em>, and other publications. <em> </em>Her essay was anthologized in<em> </em><em>My Word! Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe</em> (Sarabande).  She is on the faculty of the University of Baltimore’s MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts program.</p>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2125/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2125&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/jane-delury-reading-at-the-windup-march-31st/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/img_00742.jpg?w=1014" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Image</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Michael Downs: Saturday March 31 at the Windup!</title>
		<link>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/michael-downs-saturday-march-31-at-the-windup/</link>
		<comments>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/michael-downs-saturday-march-31-at-the-windup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thenewmercury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/?p=2120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Downs’s books include a collection of linked stories, The Greatest Show (Louisiana State University Press, 2012), and House of Good Hope (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), which won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. His recent nonfiction has appeared &#8230; <a href="http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/michael-downs-saturday-march-31-at-the-windup/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2120&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/downs_1172_smaller1.jpg"><img class="wp-image alignright" src="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/downs_1172_smaller1.jpg?w=219&#038;h=330" alt="Image" width="219" height="330" /></a>Michael Downs’s books include a collection of linked stories, The Greatest<br /> Show (Louisiana State University Press, 2012), and House of Good Hope<br /> (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), which won the River Teeth Literary<br /> Nonfiction Prize. His recent nonfiction has appeared in AARP: The<br /> Magazine, Baltimore Style, and River Teeth. A former newspaper reporter,<br /> he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and<br /> the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. He lives in Baltimore’s Hamilton<br /> neighborhood, and teaches at Towson University.</p>
<br />Filed under: <a href='http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/category/uncategorized/'>Uncategorized</a>  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thenewmercury.wordpress.com/2120/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewmercuryreadings.com&amp;blog=13623663&amp;post=2120&amp;subd=thenewmercury&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://thenewmercuryreadings.com/2012/03/25/michael-downs-saturday-march-31-at-the-windup/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/39fd94ce76d279a9024ca77376d0439f?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">thenewmercury</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://thenewmercury.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/downs_1172_smaller1.jpg?w=1014" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Image</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
