Discussed: weed, death cults, and rich people problems.
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John Hodgman Invites You to Vacationland
Discussed: Weed, Death Cults, and Rich People Problems
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Eileen Myles’ New Book is All About Her Dog (Unfortunately)
On Afterglow (A Dog Memoir) and the Complacency of Literary Success
On Afterglow (A Dog Memoir) and the complacency of literary success.
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Having Trouble Sleeping? Just Watch Ex Libris!
I love libraries more than most people (the self-checkout! the Dewey Decimal System! the summer reading challenges! the support for freedom of speech and the right to privacy! THE TRUE CRIME SECTION!), but even I couldn’t get into Frederick Wiseman’s library documentary, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library. As much as I love libraries, […]
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Win Tickets to See The Thing in 70mm—Plus a Copy of The Thing: Artbook!
From The Thing: Artbook, art by Adam Cockerton There are a lot of great John Carpenter movies, but at the top of the list is 1982’s The Thing. One of several films that saw Carpenter collaborating with his buddy Kurt Russell, The Thing remains one of the finest, creepiest, funnest horror movies ever made. This […]
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Joe Hagan on the Rise of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone
Sticky Fingers: A Crawl Through Rock and Roll Journalism and American History
Sticky Fingers: A crawl through rock ’n’ roll journalism and American history.
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From Portland Chefs, Two Surprisingly Accessible New Cookbooks—And One Fancy-Pants One
Maya Lovelace’s Pimento Mac ’n’ Cheese and Ava Gene’s Salad Niçoise In Your Kitchen? It Can Be Done!
Maya Lovelace’s pimento mac ’n’ cheese and Ava Gene’s salad niçoise in your kitchen? It can be done!
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I Loved Gerald’s Game, and I’m So Confused
How Did Stephen King’s Most Exploitative Story Become Such a Great Movie?
How did Stephen King’s most exploitative story become such a great movie?
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Nicole Krauss Transforms What We Think We Know
The Novelist’s Latest, Forest Dark, Questions Everything
The novelist’s latest, Forest Dark, questions everything.
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Cannabis Community Fair and Book Launch
If you enjoy cannabis science, free chocolate, and smart womxn, and you’re one of those eggheads who love their bookie books, here’s a fantastic way for you to spend Wednesday evening, and it’s free to those 21 and over. This Wednesday, September 27, from 6 to 10 pm, Holocene will be the place to be, […]
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In Barrett Martin’s The Singing Earth, Music is the Antidote to Isolationist Politics
Of all the aggravations and outright horrors to befall the United States in the Trump administration’s first year, one of the worst is the president’s dangerous belief that American exceptionalism means cutting our country off from the rest of the world. The border wall, the travel ban, the tightening of relations with Cuba, potential cuts […]
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Barrett Martin Travels the World
In The Singing Earth, Music is the Antidote to Isolationist Politics
In The Singing Earth, music’s the antidote to isolationist politics.
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Rebel in the Rye: The JD Salinger Biopic No One Asked For
Imagine you’re at a party, and you’re introduced to a wannabe male novelist. Clutching a glass of whiskey, he will tell you of his plans to write the Great American Novel, and he will be serious. He will say that he always writes with bourbon, but he will not say that he lacks the discipline […]