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Celebration and Bitterness, Comfort and Dread
Today, in Books, Andrea Scrima reviews Jessica Treadway’s latest collection, Please Come Back to Me. Treadway won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2009. Read the review.
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Aaron Davidson: The Last Book I Loved, Best Music Writing 2007
I paid $2 for a bargain-bin copy of Best Music Writing 2007. The price tag still covers “s” and “i.” It’s guest edited by Robert Christgau. I’d pay two dollars for anything with contributions by David Byrne, Sasha Frere-Jones, Jonathan…
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Celebration and Bitterness, Comfort and Dread
In Please Come Back to Me, Jessica Treadway examines the ambiguities of the human heart, sometimes answering life’s dilemma’s too elegantly.
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What’s in a Name? JCPenney and The Dunce Cap
A few weeks ago, a slim catalog from JCPenney arrived in our mailbox. It floated around the house for a few days. On its cover are printed these words: littleredbook fall trends 2010 I hadn’t noticed this until just the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
These crustaceans live inside of Jellyfish. What of it? Enviable Swedish architecture of the day. Sometimes I just want to read about hometown shark attacks. New Scientist explains to us how mountains grow. David Foster Wallace goes to the fair.
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Jack Stevenson: A Dirty Old Man in Action
Fortified with homemade iced Vietnamese coffee, Jack Stevenson describes his work as a film archaeologist in San Francisco, the former sex capital of the U.S.:
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The Last Book I Loved: Sick City
In classic noir fashion, Sick City opens with a death. Jeffrey, a male prostitute junkie, goes to wake up his lover and sugar daddy (a retired Los Angeles cop with a taste for kinky sex) only to find him dead.…
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Rumored Existence
Poetry Daily has posted Timothy Donnelly’s “The Rumored Existence of Other People,” which can be found in Donnelly’s collection The Cloud Corporation (this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book Club pick).
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Ames on “How to write a TV show, sort of.”
Our friend Jonathan Ames writes about his transition from plagiarizing college student to pretty damn successful TV writer.
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“But Madame Bovary has already been translated.”
Lydia Davis explains why she decided to create a new translation of Madame Bovary. Read our recent interview with Lydia Davis here.
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10/40/70 #23: Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974, directed…