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--Lounge and The Veil.

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I'm happy to say that The
Incognito Lounge is going

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to be back in print this fall.

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It's being reissued by
Carnegie Mellon, so--

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[APPLAUSE]

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He's also published the
novels Angels, Fiskadoro,

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Stars at Noon, Resuscitation
of the Hanged Man,

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and, just this
year, the collection

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of short stories, Jesus' Son.

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He's also been on a number
of gut-wrenching journalistic

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assignments to guerrilla
camps in the Philippines

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and Liberia, some little known
elements to Denis's career.

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And over the period of
the last 10 or 12 years,

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he's turned out an absolutely
stunning series of books

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that we all admire a
great deal, so we're

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very happy to welcome
him back to the home

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state of The Incognito Lounge.

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Please welcome Denis Johnson.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Can you hear me?

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I know you can hear that.

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Can you hear me?

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If my voice gets lower,
which it seems to do,

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just wave your arms in the
back there, or wherever

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it is that you can't hear,
and I'll see if I can't do

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something about it.

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Was somebody waving their arms?

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I don't know.

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It's tough to know
what to read, actually.

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Most places I go, people are not
aware that I've written poems,

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but in Tucson they seem to know.

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And it's actually
the Poetry Center

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that is sponsoring this, so let
me read some poetry, anyway.

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I'll start out with
an Arizona poem.

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