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Book Review: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams by Mark Dery
Cultural criticism with a bite
Read More »Book Review: Welcome to Wisteria Lane: On America’s Favorite Desperate Housewives, Edited by Leah Wilson
Think Desperate Housewives is a superficial show? Think again.
Read More »Book Review: The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature, edited by J.C. Hallman
"Criticism should limit its concerns to what a writer has attempted to express and how he has attempted to express it."
Read More »Intentions: Good and Otherwise
Reaction to an author's essay leads to some thoughts about intention in writing.
Read More »Book Review: But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer's fact-based but impressionistic fictional essays about great jazz musicians are a form of literary jazz.
Read More »Fakin’ It in the Sweet Calcutta Rain
My cultural references are just as good as your cultural references.
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