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Lance Olsen continues the FC/2 authors' discussion of Carole Maso's AVA and adds some bits on Laird Hunt, Mark Z Danielewski, Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley, and other recent U.S. avant-gardists.

Further on Gertrude Stein, Carole Maso, and the avant garde in U.S. fiction from Lidia Yuknavitch.

Picking up Lance Olsen's theme of thinking as digestion, Michael Martone chews on what's Avant Garde about Baltimore.

Against the conflation of Islamic and economic fundamentalisms (William S. Wilson responds to Nick Spenser).

To understand differences between Islamic and Western aesthetics, Nick Spencer argues, is not the way to understand the WTC attacks.