Harvey Pekar Gets Online
Harvey Pekar of American Splendor fame has teamed up with Tara Seibel, Joseph Remnant, Rick Parker, and Sean Pryor to create his first webcomic over at SMITH. The Pekar Project…
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A Quick Look at the Google Book Search Settlement
US district court judge Denny Chin will be ruling in a case on how we access printed books in the future. Who’s in the middle of a bid for our…
Sympathy for These Devils
Drug addicts, pimps, whores, misogynists, hoodlums… all the usual suspects inhabit the stories in Irvine Welsh’s new collection.
Biological Identity Theft
We live in a time where fake DNA has a place in the market! Nucleix, a company specializing in forensic DNA analysis, has uncovered the possibility of falsified DNA evidence…
Little Books
Kendra Grant Malone, author of Love Your Friends and Not Your Lovers (bore parade), has just released her most recent chapbook, Rape Children, for only $3 through J.A. Tyler‘s micro-press…
Health Care Links
“Sick and Wrong,” a look at how Washington is screwing up health care reform. Robert Reich makes the case for public option in 150 seconds. Paul Krugman does it in…
Brotherly Love
My old man was like Zeus’s father Cronos: he couldn’t bear the idea that any of his children might surpass him. Life radiated from the central pulse of his scrap-metal…
Morning Coffee
This is really dumb but I can’t stop staring at it; tiny versions of bigger things. Gerry Canavan points us in the direction of THE BLOOP. Sea monster? Cthulu? Nothing…
