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This Week’s Interesting DVD Releases – August 27, 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 09:26 am
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby is in stores tomorrow. The Criterion Collection releases Early Fassbinder, a collection of five Werner Fassbinder films and...
This Week’s Interesting Music Releases – August 27, 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
Two archival releases of rarities and unreleased material are the new music highlights this week, Belle and Sebastian’s The Third Eye Centre and Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 – Another Self ...
Yet Another Blue Jasmine Review 26 Aug 2013 | 08:37 am
Everyone else is reviewing it. Why not myself? “Blue Jasmine: Surface and Depth” is up: http://www.americanpoplit.blogspot.com/2013/08/blue-jasmine-surface-and-depth.html It’s only Part I of a two-...
Three More Books of Great Interest, Ryk Spoor, Eleanor Catton and D.K.R. Boyd (with comments by Liviu Suciu) 25 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
A quick post about three recent or upcoming books that somewhat unexpectedly took over my reading and displaced some books that were quite high on my asap list like the third Thomas Cale novel, The Be...
That Makes Perfect Sense 25 Aug 2013 | 07:48 am
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“Black Swan Rising: Black Swan Rising #1″ by Lee Carroll (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman) 24 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
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Shorties (Ranking the Top 100 Tori Amos Songs, William Vollmann’s FBI File, and more) 23 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
Flavorwire lists the top 100 songs of Tori Amos. Harper’s shares excerpts from author William T. Vollmann’s FBI file. Vollmann spoke to Morning Edition about the file. Stereogum lists the 10 best S...
Book Notes – Mitchell S. Jackson “The Residue Years” 23 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kev...
GenCon 2013 Post-Convention Recap – Part 2: D&D Party Time! 22 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
Drizzt Do’Urden, wielding his codpiece of holding, awaits the birthday festivities at GenCon 2013 After a pretty full first day at GenCon 2013, things were really just getting started for me. At abou...
Book Notes – Dennis Bock “Going Home Again” 21 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kev...
