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Nov 20, 2009, 01:58PM
SciFi the world over
Charles A. Tan conducts interviews with The Apex Book of World SF writers in this special segment. A interview with Guy Hasson below. More interviews here.
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Nov 20, 2009, 10:32AM
We like lists because we don't want to die
An interview with legendary writer Umberto Eco.
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Nov 19, 2009, 11:27AM
Library workers commit censorship
What happens when an 11-year-old girl requests a copy of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier?
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Nov 18, 2009, 04:02PM
Hard truths about the best-seller list
Lynn Viehl analyzes her royalties from her best-selling mass market paperback, Twilight Fall.
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Nov 18, 2009, 01:28PM
Kurt Vonnegut writes home
At the end of WWII, having been a prisoner of war for months, and with his family knowing only that he was "missing in action," Kurt Vonnegut mailed a letter back to Indianapolis.
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Nov 17, 2009, 03:33PM
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the balance of power
An intimate look at the great Latin American writer.
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Nov 17, 2009, 09:50AM
2009 Oxford Word of the Year? Unfriend
Yes... as in the opposite of friend.
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Nov 11, 2009, 12:31PM
Breaking down the choose your own adventure books
Data visualizations courtesy of Christian Swinehart.
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Nov 10, 2009, 12:46PM
Forest Carter's The Education of Little Tress
You probably remember this book from school. What I'm sure they never told you was that Forest Carter was in fact Asa Carter, renowned racist speechwriter for George Wallace.
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Nov 06, 2009, 12:40PM
Have you ever thought: There's gotta be a good ancient Sumerian proverb I could use right now
"Beer is a bull. The mouth is its stairway."
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Nov 05, 2009, 10:56AM
Magazines 2.0 - Tailoring your reading
"Utilizing social intelligence, our system recommends magazine articles you will enjoy reading from over 600 magazine titles."
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Nov 02, 2009, 10:54AM
How 'bout a nice big cup of shut the fuck up?
Bruce Buschel and "One Hundred Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do."
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Oct 26, 2009, 02:26PM
Ah, nothing like a good ol' fashioned book banning
The Pentagon takes on Noam Chomsky.
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Oct 22, 2009, 12:48PM
Classic textbooks: "When You Marry"
Don't worry, it's the updated 1962 edition.
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Oct 21, 2009, 04:20PM
Eating the Dinosaur
Read the first chapter from Chuck Klosterman's new book.
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Oct 09, 2009, 04:51PM
Roger Ebert on a life of books
"When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes." -Erasmus
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Oct 08, 2009, 04:53PM
Librarians turning to Teamsters for help
An ugly battle brews.
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Nov 18, 2009, 09:53AM
Schrödinger's Rapist
There's no way to be perfectly safe, but women shouldn't have to live with an everyday fear of perfect strangers.
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Nov 17, 2009, 09:49AM
Your Native Tongue is a Crime Against the State
Observations in the last former-Soviet police state.
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Nov 13, 2009, 10:27AM
Art Need Not Be Edgy
So long as it's about community—no matter how self-effacing, maudlin and bourgeoisie that community is.
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Nov 12, 2009, 09:39AM
The Cheap and the Bad
Nerdy wordiness and unearned sentiment unite in Nick Harkaway's offensive but curiously readable post-apocalyptic first novel, The Gone-Away World. (Grade: C-)
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Nov 10, 2009, 10:18AM
The Economist Syndrome
In India, modernity and tradition don't clash, they meld
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Nov 09, 2009, 09:51AM
3,000+ Words of Jackassery
Christopher Hitchens enjoys widespread acclaim as an intellectual provocateur of the highest caliber—that is, until his ego overshadows his argument.
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Nov 03, 2009, 11:02AM
INTERVIEW: Wallace Shawn
The playwright and actor talks about his unique balance of commercial and avant garde work, the importance of having one's assumptions challenged, and his new book, Essays.
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Nov 03, 2009, 10:17AM
Way Out West
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Oct 30, 2009, 10:36AM
Sex For Cartoons
Jay Cantor's Krazy Kat (1987) is a fascinating, overlooked novel about human urges in 2-D characters.
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Oct 29, 2009, 10:28AM
A Biography Full of Short Cuts
Mitchell Zuckoff's Robert Altman: The Oral Biography is an unfortunate bit of hackwork about one of the greatest American filmmakers.
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Oct 21, 2009, 10:24AM
The Consciousness of a Liberal
Wallace Shawn's Essays is a rare contemporary example of artful, eloquent leftist writing.
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Oct 19, 2009, 10:00AM
Baltimore Gets the NYT's Superficial Treatment
Beware of the drive-by travel writer, epitomized by the Times' "36 Hours in..." feature.
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Oct 08, 2009, 10:47AM
Zen and the Art of Self-Satisfaction
Looking back at Julia Cameron's million-selling, vaguely fascist self-help book The Artist's Way.
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Oct 07, 2009, 12:22PM
Richard Powers is Un-American
The novelist's new Generosity: An Enhancement lacks the spirited, contradictory pluck of the brilliant A New Literary History of America.
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Nov 13, 2009, 11:10AM
Mike Stilkey's book art
Come, take a tour of his studio.
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Nov 10, 2009, 10:10AM
Ah, the National Spelling Bee... Derrick Comedy style
Not for the easily offended.
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Nov 02, 2009, 02:06PM
Gutenberg, you crazy SOB
Stephen Fry's six-part documentary on the printing press.
"This was the man who launched the first media revolution and opened the door to the modern age."
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Oct 22, 2009, 10:45AM
The 2009 Critterati
Upload photos of the non-human members of your family dressed as famous literary characters. Well... sure, why not.
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Oct 07, 2009, 12:18PM
"So... Sarah falls in love with a shark?"
Lessons on writing your first novel.
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Sep 30, 2009, 01:54PM
For all you prissy graphic design majors out there
Helvetica vs. Arial -- take the test.
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Sep 22, 2009, 12:29PM
Fou Magazine knows how to make a website
Beautiful panda-themed 3rd issue, complete with some pretty excellent poetry.
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Sep 03, 2009, 03:42PM
DIY
Author Douglas Coupland wants you to design your own cover for his next book.
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Sep 01, 2009, 04:21PM
"Hey there Hep-Cat! Interested in some slang?"
Lessons from the Great Depression.
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Aug 20, 2009, 01:49PM
Primiti Too Taa
An excerpt from Kurt Schwitters' poem "Ursonate."
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Aug 14, 2009, 01:30PM
Fancy a more seductive coffee break?
Let Carte Noire help.
Dominic West reads from Jeremy Page's The Wake.
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Aug 07, 2009, 11:40AM
Choose you're own adventure, 2.0
It's probably government propaganda but what the hey, it's fun.
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Jul 31, 2009, 02:08PM
Book Art
Sculpture artist Robert The's preferred medium: books. Below a look at some of his astounding recent work.
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Jul 30, 2009, 02:55PM
Bathroom Graffiti
