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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Padma Viswanathan's most recent novel is The Ever After of Ashwin Rao. More at her website: WWW.PADMAVISWANATHAN.COM
Christopher Hitchens and the Eight-Year-Old
“What books should I read?” That’s the question a brave eight-year-old girl asked Christopher Hitchens at the Dawkins Award ceremony in Houston, TX. Click here to learn what happened next.
“Time is a gift…”
“Our cult of decade anniversaries—the tenth of 9/11, the twentieth of ‘Nevermind’—are for the most part mere accidents of our fingers: because we’ve got five on each hand, we count…
Occupy Wall Street Library
“A prerequisite for any successful revolution is literature.” In case you missed it: we posted a story by Matthew Wolfe about “The Occupy Wall Street Library” over the weekend.
Party with McSweeney’s in SF
Bay Area Readers: don’t miss tonight’s McSweeney’s 38 Release Party at Amnesia (853 Valencia Street) featuring Chanan Tigay and Nathaniel Rich! The event kicks off at 6:30pm, and is sure…
Juggalos: True Fringe Culture
“Finally, something should be said for the fact that although I like to identify myself with punks and outcasts and ‘fringe culture’ (whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean), the…
Troy Davis Update
Very sad news from the NYTimes: “Supreme Court Will Not Stop Davis Execution.” For live updates follow @kimseverson. Update: “Troy Davis dead at 11:08.”
Unauthorised Assange Autobiography
Tomorrow Canongate, Julian Assange’s former publisher, plan to “publish ‘the unauthorised first draft’ of his autobiography without his consent, months after the WikiLeaks founder withdrew from a million-pound contract for…