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In Which I Pretend That We're The Oldest And Dearest Friends
Good Night, Dear Void by KARA VANDERBIJL In 2001, when the Internet was still an infant, Heather Armstrong started a website recounting the details of her everyday life. "I should probably shoplift...
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In Which We're Sorry We Had A Row Moonbeam
Emails From Your Boyfriend The Beatle by TESS LYNCH On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:45 PM, John Lennon<hrtbreakhotel@gmail.com> wrote:Hey Babe.I've bought a military jacket. I thought that you would...
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In Which Everything Has The Same Use Including Food
The Consumption of J.D. Salinger by ELIZABETH GUMPORT J.D. Salinger provokes the personal turn. When we write about his work, we write about him, his private life – or our own. What is public becomes...
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In Which Communism Was Just A Red Herring
What You Need To Do by ALMIE ROSE Have you ever thrown a party and then realized that you didn't know what to do? Let the cast of Clue be your guide. What you need to do is to make your guests...
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In Which We Taste The Balls Of The Bear
A Whole New World by DICK CHENEY Game of Thrones creators David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Peter Beinart ended the war on terror yesterday, which was nice of him to do. Does he have a solution for the...
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In Which We Meet Up With A Former Student Of Her Aunt
Deserved by ZORA SANDERS I first read The Talented Mr. Ripley on holiday in New York. While I was there my aunt arranged for me to meet up with an ex-student of hers who is now some kind of lawyer or...
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In Which Molls Advises No Martinis, Manicures Or Pillow Fights
Plz Advise by MOLLY MCALEER Plz Advise is an advice column. You can e-mail me questions about almost anything, but don’t like, take out a loan against your 401k or murder anyone based on anything I...
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In Which We Visit The Best Bookstores In New York
This is the first part of a two part series. You can find the second part here. Off the Shelf by BARBARA GALLETLY All I ever really wanted was to read books and make more. So I came to New York in the...
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In Which We Visit The Best Bookstores In Los Angeles
This is the second in a two part series. You can find the first part here. This Is Not A Book Town by BARBARA GALLETLY This is not a Book Town, and I’m not surprising you or anyone by saying so. L.A....
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In Which We Grab The Hand Of The King
Aegon's Handjob by DICK CHENEY Game of Thrones creators David Benioff & D.B. Weiss HBO, Sundays at 9pm What a week. I feel like Phil Jackson looks. Since I'm now essentially retired from political...
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In Which We Idealize The Letters Of Flannery O'Connor
What A Long Way A Little Goes Everything is in the letters of Flannery O'Connor. Everything. She moved to New York when she was in her twenties, thinking she had to escape Georgia to become a writer....
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In Which Molls Corrects A General Lack Of Self-Awareness
Plz Advise by MOLLY MCALEER Plz Advise is an advice column. You can e-mail me questions about almost anything, but don't like, take out a loan against your 401k or murder anyone based on anything I...
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In Which We Make A Better Special Agent Than You Ever Did
Dome Versus Dome by LAUREN BANS Fast Five dir. Justin Lin 130 minutes Fast and the Furious movies are like animal videos on the Internet, and not only because Paul Walker's face looks like an LOLcat....
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In Which They Will See A Hundred Other Things
That Girl Is Poison by BRITTANY JULIOUS I write this as a woman who does not consider herself sexy, but understands the power of sexy, and the seduction sexiness gives towards women who can manipulate...
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In Which We Have An Astonishing Amount Of Attention To Give
The Jumping Catfish Love of Anne Sexton by ALEX CARNEVALE The great theme is not Romeo and Juliet. The great theme we all share is that of becoming ourselves, of overcoming our father and mother, of...
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In Which We Utilize A Metric Of Vulnerability
Swatting It Away by ARIANNA STERN Bridesmaids dir. Paul Feig 125 minutes Annie (Kristen Wiig) is having casual sex with a rough-yet-clumsy partner (a totes ridic Jon Hamm). Even before he says the...
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In Which We Move From One Part Of Brooklyn To Another
Heirlooms by EMMA BARRIE I have a desk I found on the street. I carried it up three flights of stairs by myself. I have six records, but no record player. I bought them because they were colorful or...
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In Which Game Of Thrones Reigns From A Horse
Rescind The Look Marring Your Daughter's Face by DICK CHENEY When I was young, not much older than most of the readers of this website were when they first exposed themselves to illicit drugs and...
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In Which We Hold The Tree Of Life At An Arm's Length
One Big, One Small by JESSE KLEIN The Tree of Life dir. Terrence Malick 138 minutes It is impossible to watch Terrence Malick’s new film The Tree of Life without having an opinion. Some will find this...
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In Which We Consider The Macabre Unpleasantness Of Roald Dahl
Angry Man by ALEX CARNEVALE The stories are brilliant and the imagination is fabulous. Unfortunately, there is, in all of them, an underlying streak of cruelty and macabre unpleasantness, and a...
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