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Tuesday, September 22 2009

Foxified Culture: Incurable Optimist Michael J. Fox

How can I start an honest discussion about what Fox has meant to me? How can I pull him apart from my 28 years of experience in this world?


Wednesday, April 8 2009

To Kill the Sunflower: An Interview with Cory McAbee

Space is a lonely town, but there's only room for one song-and-dance sheriff in these parts, and his name is Cory McAbee, writer and director of the new space-western musical Stingray Sam.


Friday, February 27 2009

Beautiful Agony: The New Naked

Erotica website Beautiful Agony continues to revolutionize how both men and women approach sex and intimacy by revealing individual facial expressions of real, vulnerable human beings orgasming.


Monday, January 19 2009

Hearts in Exile: An Interview with H2D Founder Chuck Warner

Hyped to Death founder Chuck Warner chats about the seductive siren song of obscure '80s post-punk and underground no-wave that sold maybe 500 albums or 250 singles or even ten tapes before fading into musical oblivion.


Wednesday, July 9 2008

Let the Buyer Beware: Bookstore Caveat Emptor Will Not Go Quietly Into That Good Night

Thirty-seven years and still going: Justin Dimos dissects Bloomington's historical secondhand bookstore.


Reviews

Wednesday, July 22 2009

We Did Porn by Zak Smith

Unfortunately, as readers will find out, there are no excuses in porn, short of a plane crash on your way to another movie.


Friday, June 12 2009

A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

This masterfully crosses continents and timelines, weaving together a genealogical tapestry that chronicles five generations of women.


Thursday, May 21 2009

How Sex Works by Sharon Moalem

Moalem writes about intercourse and sexuality in a candid, inviting way for a change, bridging the gap between the scientist and the layperson, reinvigorating the learning process (and the bedroom) once again.


Wednesday, April 29 2009

Sunny Side Down by Lev Yilmaz

Image existentialists collaborating about the birth of a cartoonist, his adolescence, and his fruitless journey to rationalize his mediocre life.


Monday, April 6 2009

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

This debut story collection paralyzes with its unflinching take on remorse and the future's uncertainty, with stories as believable and as haunting as the epigraphs chiseled into tombstones.


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