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Sam Riley
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On Why We Need Some Critics Like Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño’s Between Parentheses puts the author’s critical and nonfiction prowess on display. It’s a collection of essays and writing from his newspaper column (which was titled Between Parentheses), compiled after the publication of The Savage Detectives. Most of the…
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Phone-Hacking Scandal’s Latest
With more unraveling of the Murdoch/phone-hacking scandal, the consequences and reverberations of the case have grown extensive and increasingly grave. The latest development came to light this morning when Sean Hoare, a former employee of the News of the World,…
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The Search For Borges
Jorge Luis Borges’ writing is scattered among the annals of the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, among rare, historically-significant literary gems like hand-corrected proofs of Ulysses and a Gutenberg Bible. The Borges papers, which are made up…
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Trampoline Hall Lecture Series in SF!
The Toronto-based Trampoline Hall Lecture series (where people lecture on subjects outside their area of expertise) is on tour. The series’ founder, Sheila Heti, has got a book out with Misha Glouberman called The Chairs are Where the People Go.…
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John Sayles’ New Film
John Sayles, who just blew our minds with a novel that is both physically and emotionally heavy, directed an indie film called Amigo, which is his 17th film. The movie is about “a village mayor caught in the murderous cross-fire…
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Phone Hacking and Its Here, There and Everywhere Influences
News International’s phone hacking scandal has regenerated all over the web as the scandal continues to unfold, tracing back the hacking and subsequent bribery that’s been happening for years–more and more articles appear detailing the latest happenings in Parliament. With…
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Funny Humiliation Hype
Hilarious book trailers are becoming more and more common, which is a trend I totally welcome. Wayne Koestenbaum who has attained the ultimate trifecta of poet, academic and novelist, has got a new book coming out in August called Humiliation.…
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Two Doses of Sugar
The Awl has got a sweet interview with none other than our very own advice columnist, Sugar, who is always ebbing our existential qualms with her eloquence. But what’s it like to be Sugar, negotiating intimacy with anonymity, keeping up…
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Traffic Reads
What more appropriate list could possibly come out of LA than books to read during gridlock? Especially an LA impending traffic crisis? This Friday marks Carmaggedon, which is the kind of catastrophe you know about ahead of time, specifically one…
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Data Flow
This one goes out to all those who like their data visually organized before them and those who like design, and also those who dabble in “how-to” books. If you like all three, then this book and corresponding video couldn’t…
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Restaurant Jobs
There’s bittersweet news on the job creation growth front—the Wall Street Journal released numbers that described the current state of hiring in this country, which revealed the growth in the food service industry, apparently one tenth of the American labor…