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An American journalist who now lives in New Zealand, Nik Dirga writes whenever the mood strikes him about books, music, movies, pop culture and more.
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Book Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami puts fiction aside for a breezy memoir about his great passion for running.
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Music Review: The Jayhawks, Music From The North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology
One of the shining lights of 'alt-country' music gets an overdue retrospective.
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Music Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity Collector's Edition
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds revisit their dark and brooding 1984 debut.
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DVD Review: Harlan Ellison: Dreams With Sharp Teeth
The angriest man on earth or one of our great writers? Meet Harlan Ellison in this great documentary.
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Music Review: The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage
Hard-rocking but sincere, The Hold Steady release their first live album.
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Graphic Novel Review: Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 Edited by Greg Sadowski
Forgotten comic book heroes of the 1930s and 1940s are revisited in this great sampler
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Music Review: The Replacements, Tim, Pleased To Meet Me, Don't Tell A Soul, All Shook Down (Special Edition reissues)
Some of the best alternative rock of the late 1980s is cleaned up with bonus tracks in the second half of the Replacements reissues program.
The third collection of James Kochalka's daily diary cartoon continues a winning mix of humor and honesty about living your life.
The spunky underdogs of alt-country return from hiatus with two new albums of good-time rock 'n' roll.
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Book Review: Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
Superheroes jump off the comics page and into prose in this entertaining first novel.
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