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Don DeLillo on Writing as Freedom
Not long ago I was re-reading Jonathan Franzen’s famous Harper’s Essay as background to an essay I was working on, and towards the end Franzen quotes Don DeLillo, who had written to him: “Writing is a form of personal freedom. It…
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Blog Blurbs on Books?
On the cover of Rob Riemen’s Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal, a blurb from Mark Sarvos of the blog The Elegant Variation graces its bottom left corner. On his website, Brian Sholis (writer and former editor of Artforum) asks…
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Morning Coffee
Giving blood doesn’t have to be boring, it can be terrifyingly futuristic too! “Efforts to prevent foul weather on Oct. 1 involved satellites, 400 scientists, cloud-probing lasers and a squadron of transport planes capable of sprinkling liquid nitrogen into pregnant…
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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…