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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…
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Banned Books Week
According to the American Library Association there were “at least 513 actual and attempted book bannings in the US in 2008.” At the top of the list? And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson. That’s right. A…
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Health Care Links
“Senate Panel Rejects Pair of Public Options in Health Plan”… but is there a silver lining? Schumer and Baucus claim ‘We don’t have 60 votes.’ But the real question is, “60 votes for what?” Insurers are exploiting the health care…
