A new collection of essays from the brilliant stylist Eileen Myles.
Paul Constant
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Backwash from the Woodstock Generation
Peeling Back the Layers of Thomas Pynchon’s New Mystery
Peeling back the layers of Thomas Pynchon’s breezy new mystery
Inherent Vice.
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Seek and Ye Shall Find
You Can’t Read The Girl with Brown Fur Like it’s a Normal Book
You can’t read The Girl with Brown Fur like it’s a normal book.
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The Evolution of Aleksandar Hemon
In Love and Obstacles, Hemon’s Bleak Humor Shines
In Love and Obstacles, Aleksandar Hemon refocuses his Bosnian
identity through a lens of American immigrant experience.
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Reviving the Rock Novel
Ben Greenman’s Please Step Back is an ecstatic, amped-up novel
about rock ‘n’ roll.
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Nerds Deserve Better
Putting up with Fanboys
Looking for a good movie about nerds? Fanboys isn’t it.
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The Cult of Self-Mutilating Monks
Last Days returns horror and detective fiction to their dark roots.
Last Days returns horror and detective fiction to their dark
roots.
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Rescuing a Tired Genre
The Local News makes the familiar story of teenage abduction
fresh again.
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Bewinged Authors Want to Drag Us Toward 2012
Toward 2012 puts the “T.M.I.” in “end times.”
Toward 2012 puts the “T.M.I.” in “end times.”
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Where’s Seann William Scott When You Need Him?
Push Is Great, Except for the Actors and the Plot
Push: Like Jumper 2!
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Terrorist by John Updike
Well, I didn’t hate it. John Updike’s newest novel, Terrorist, is getting panned by all the usual suspects, and it’s easy to understand why. It’s about an 18-year-old high-school Muslim extremist named Ahmad, is structured like a clichéd paperback thriller, and it’s packed with efforts to be relevant. I’m still not sure whether Terrorist actually […]