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Dave Eggers' The Wild Things is available for preorder, in regular hardcover and
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A Convergence of Convergences: A Contest. - - - - For more information about this contest, click here. - - - - Carnival of Convergences No. 5. - - - - Widow's Peaks. By Chris Reeves - - - -    On the left: Frans Hals, Portrait of a Seated Woman Holding a Fan (1650); on the right: Edward Wolfgang Munster - - - - Targeting. BY MIA McIVER - - - -    Stills from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - - - -    Stills from a Chevy commercial - - - - Congestion and Transcendence. By Brent Holland's Mariner High School art class - - - - - - - - - - - - Big Round Tiers. By Brent Holland's Mariner High School art class - - - -    - - - - Ring-a-ding-ding. By Lawrence Weschler - - - - Johannes Vermeer, Officer and Laughing Girl (c. 1655–60) - - - - Dennis Oppenheim, Attempt to Raise Hell (1974) - - - - Aphrodite Hanks. By Jimmy Chen - - - -    On the left, a still from Splash (1984); on the right, a still from Cast Away (2000) - - - - Pet Carriers. By Jamie Johansson - - - - Lady With an Ermine (c. 1483–90) by Leonardo da Vinci - - - - Lady With a Dog by a paparazzo - - - - Head Games. By Lauren Redniss - - - - Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors (1533) - - - - Anonymous after Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, The French Lady in London, or the Head Dress for the Year 1771 (1771) - - - - OTHER WINNERS. - - - - 1. Evolving, Evolved by Charlie Hopper 2. Primal Forces, Basic Colors by Andy Hunter 3. The End of the Beginning by Holly Dunsworth Intermezzo by Lawrence Weschler 4. This Is Not an Ad by Jimmy Chen 5. Catskills Vagina by Dan Clem 6. The Antipodes by Chris Zic 7. Self-Made Constriction by Sam Gaskin 8. We Are the Son by Danny Erker 9. Painfully Unaware by Dan Park 10. Gutshot by Jason Torchinsky Weschler's Second Interlude 11. Love and War by Kim Wood 12. Inside and Out There by Lena Webb 13. The March by Emily Marvosh 14. Feminine Divine Triptych by Margit Christenson 15. Time's Deliberate Convergence by Steve Denyszyn 16. A Rousseau/Hirshfield Convergence by Adam Webb Beirut/Warsaw by Lawrence Weschler 17. Clothesline Raising Over Carlisle, Indiana by Charlie Hopper Carnival of Convergences Weschler's Fourth Interlude Aftersquib to the Foregoing 18. Pelvises All the Way Down by John Peter Rickgauer 19. Ovary Night? by Maya Muñoz 20. Christ in Space by Jonathan Shipley A Pair of Convergences Off of Tina Barney Another Carnival of Convergences 21. Moral Confusion: Iraq, Munich, and Vietnam by Donald Rumsfeld 22. Seeing the Tree for the Forest by Walter Murch An Addendum to the Foregoing, and a Visitor Challenge 23, 24, and 25. Far Out by Michael Benson, Brian Christian, and Walter Murch 26. Jewish Bunk Beds by Monica S. Bland Those Damn Swedish Trees, Take 3: Convergence of the Blogs 27. Degenerate Boogie-Woogie by Lisa Lee Carnival of Convergences No. 3 28. Sand and Moon by Alison Cornyn Actaeon: An Ovidian Impromptu by Lawrence Weschler 29 and 30. Hoods and Veils by Vero Testa and Lauren Redniss The Onion/Bickle Convergence by Lawrence Weschler 31. The Lone Figure Against the Armored Swarm by Michele Siegel 32. Muscle and Flow by Benjamin R. Cohen An Addendum to the Foregoing: Cities, Brains, Orchestras by Lawrence Weschler Saint and Princess by Lawrence Weschler Beauty Queen and Baghdad Hummer by Lawrence Weschler Carnival of Convergences No. 4 Laughing, Clapping, Constantly Forgetting: A Trill of Readerly Associations by Lawrence Weschler 33. Lithographica by R.A. Villanueva 34. Papal Fire (Papa Lux) by Nick Feia Addendum to "Laughing, Clapping ..." and, More Specifically, to the Stalinist-Applause Anecdote by Lawrence Weschler 35. Disseminations: Internet, Dandelions, Flight Paths by Sarah Daegling 36. Black and White and in Color by Walter Murch Carnival of Convergences No. 5 Lee Friedlander's Visionary Trees: An Addendum to the Last Chapters of Everything That Rises by Lawrence Weschler 37. Shipwrecked Desperation by Charles Mudede via Matt Haber 38. Life Forms by Ariel Winter Cameras, Action! From Disney World to St. Peter's Square, the Mediative Flight From the Immediate by Lawrence Weschler Carnival of Convergences No. 6 Convergent Postscripts by Lawrence Weschler From Da Vinci to Duchamp, by Way of Russia by Lawrence Weschler Venus on a Vespa, Berger on My Mind by Lawrence Weschler   MORE ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT RISES

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