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Website switches to national focus, lists string of upcoming fundraisers
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Environmental-justice leader is finally being heard
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The day I faced my demons and modeled for a nude-drawing class
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Sensori Collective modeled on Kava Lounge's popular 'Family Matters' showcase
Monday, June 10,2013
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Celebrating short-story month
A review of collections by George Saunders, Sam Lipsyte, Marie Calloway, Roy Kesey and Yoko Ogawa
If a group of short stories is called a "collection," what do you call a collection of collections? For the literati, it's simply called "May."
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Monday, May 20,2013
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Cult of personality
Fiona Maazel’s beguiling new novel about the perils of loneliness
Either Fiona Maazel—named in 2008 to the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" list—possesses psychic powers or her novels are remarkably prescient.
Monday, April 29,2013
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Karen Green’s artfully fragmented elegy
Her book ‘Bough Down’ explores the immortality of loss
Karen Green's book, Bough Down, published by Siglio, is an elegy for her husband, the much-loved writer David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008.
Wednesday, April 10,2013
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One classic and two new ones by local writers
San Diego celebrates ‘Fahrenheit 451’—plus reviews of Bonnie ZoBell’s ‘The Whack-Job Girls’ and Marivi Soliven’s debut novel, ‘The Mango Bride’
What would the world be like without books? That’s the question Write Out Loud is asking San Diegans in its month-long celebration of the dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Monday, March 18,2013
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Scott McClanahan’s ‘Crapalachia’ tells it on the mountain
West Virginia author takes his readers to a place where they belong
Crapalachia is McClanahan's third book about the Mountain State but his first long-form treatment of the subject nearest and dearest to his heart. He couples a savage sense of humor with a willingness to revisit life's most uncomfortable moments.
Monday, February 25,2013
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A satire, a collage and an elegy hold a mirror up to the unnatural
Reviews of ‘Confessions from a Dark Wood’ by Eric Raymond; ‘Board,’ curated by Brad Listi and Justin Benton; and ‘The Guardians’ by Sarah Manguso
There comes a point fairly early in Confessions from a Dark Wood, Eric Raymond's debut novel from Sator Press, where it appears as if the author is determined to take his 21st-century satire over the top. And then he takes it further.
Monday, February 4,2013
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Two novels about the sadness of contemporary families
Reviews of Antoine Wilson’s ‘Panorama City’ and Jami Attenberg’s ‘The Middlesteins’
During my early 20s, I worked as a night cook at a 24-hour fast-food restaurant in rural southwest Virginia. I met a lot of interesting characters during my time on the grill.
Tuesday, January 15,2013
Retro Issue
Retro Issue
Barber Side: where everybody knows your mane
Normal Heights shop is a return to an old-school social club
Imagine it’s 1899 and you want to know what’s going on in the world. You really only have two options: buy a newspaper or head to the barber shop.
Monday, January 14,2013
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I finally read ‘Moby-Dick’
A late appreciation of Melville’s tale of 19th-century technology
Call me tardy. After a stint in the Navy, two English degrees and an ocean of books, I finally got around to reading Herman Melville’s classic seafaring adventure, Moby-Dick.
Monday, December 17,2012
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Two of the best books of 2012
Reviews of ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ and ‘Every Love Story is a Ghost Story’
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain is stuffed so full of Americana, it’s enough to make the most effusive red-stater blush.
