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Illustrated Interview
Artist Isaac Littlejohn Eddy recently interviewed Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran, for The Sun & Anchor. Aside from being an interesting discussion about Iran, writing, belonging to two worlds, and Islam,…
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The Rumpus Review of Jennifer’s Body
It’s funny, the word choice in the title of Jennifer’s Body, the gory horror-comedy from, improbably enough, the writer and producers of Juno, 2007’s teen pregnancy comedy.
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Fables of the Reconstruction
With patience reminiscent of Tolstoy, Cornelia Nixon weaves a tapestry of events to explain how an ordinary girl in post-Civil War Maryland kills her lover and gets away with it.
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Reviews
“Just how many bonghits did Wong do before he sat down to write this thing? How old is the author?” -Kenny Squires tackles David Wong’s John Dies at the End. “Let’s face it: Even when you’re breaking up with a…
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Kati Standefer: The Last Book I Loved, The Lake
The first time I read The Lake by Daniel Villasenor I was fifteen, crunched into the backseat of our tiny family Chrysler and on my way to Georgia. I’d plucked the book off a library shelf because it had the…
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Glenn Beck Doesn’t Need Gimmicks
Ted Wilson, who recently reviewed Glenn Beck for his most recent “Ted Wilson Reviews the World” column, brought this footage from 1986 to our attention.
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Random Media Notes
The Daily Beast gets into book publishing. “Dan Rather’s Case Against CBS Dismissed” New York Times pay model will be a “gut call.” Bernie Goldberg calls out Fox News’ journalistic standards on Fox News. When will the layoffs at Condé…
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From the Department of Possibly Lost But Nevertheless Immensely Worthwhile Causes
In all the understandable uproar about the impending disembowelment of the literary magazine TriQuarterly, I haven’t yet seen a suggestion that readers and writers try to do something about the situation. And so, after a minute of crack sleuthing, I’ve…
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Where God and the Devil Wheel Like Vultures: Report from El Paso
There’s a story here, but it exists in illogical fragments, chaotic subtexts, and poverty economics cured in the meth-soaked algebra of need, greed and corruption. And eventually it all plays out in song. Folk songs, cowboy ballads and Narco-corridos. What…
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Morning Coffee
This is the sort of thing that people do in Finland: forkless bicycle! This is the sort of thing that people do in Croatia: sweet water organ! This is the sort of thing that people do in Japan: My favorite…