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Conversations at a Wartime Café
Sean Labrador y Manzano is a single father, a poet of postcolonial eroticism, and independent scholar. He believes in poetic justice: that one day soon he can pay all his bills (child support, student loans, credit cards, etc) through writing. In the mean time he ambles from gig to gig to gig. The experience of underemployment compels him to contemplate at wartime cafés (as all cafés are wartime cafés during a time of war) the benefits and contradictions of military reenlistment.
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August 12, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 21: What Little Boys Are Made Of Redux
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August 3, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 20: Christmas in July
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July 6, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 19: Recuerdo
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June 14, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 18: Another Cover Letter, Never Sent for its Obvious Humor and Talk Story, for Assistant Professor of English
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May 10, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 17: New Look Army
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May 10, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 16: Jus Sanguinis
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April 19, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 15: Venus Infers: Defining postcolonial eroticism
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March 31, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 14: What Little Boys Are Made Of
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March 11, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 13: CIVILIAN UNDER NAVAL TRAINING
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February 19, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 12: Calla y Calla
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February 1, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 11: The “SUN WILL SET” because “IT’S ALL ABOUT WAR” or “IT’S ALL ABOUT WAR” because the “SUN WILL SET.”
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January 15, 2010Conversations at a Wartime Café: Conversation 10: “which serve first to shew how constant.”
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