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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009If you’ve been paying attention, you already know how much I like the Twilight series. (I’ve said it’s better than Dracula.) But I also like a good spoof, and what follows is particularly good! Enjoy.
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Bookshops are not Churches. But. « . . . Damien G. Walter . . .
Monday, November 16th, 2009In “Bookshops are not Churches. But…,” Damien G. Walter touches on a growing divergence between the arts—particularly books—and commercial bookstores. Definitely worth the read.
Walter’s comment on the role of the arts in modern spirituality (for lack of a better term) may answer a question raised at the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) fall conference last [...]
Why I Read Stephen King . . .
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Dolores Claiborne, The Dead Zone, & the Bachman books.
Sentences like this: “Another light perhaps eight blocks down changed to green before a high dingy many-windowed building that looked like a mental hospital, and so was probably the high school.”
—Les
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No, We’re Not All to Blame
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009As you may have heard, Goldman Sachs investment bank just posted record profits for the quarter, creating bonuses to put its employees’ earnings at an average of $770,000 each this year. This evening Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed Rolling Stone magazine’s Matt Taibbi about his recent article excoriating Goldman Sachs, calling them “a great vampire squid [...]
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