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Nikki Tranter
PopMatters Books & Re:Print Editor
About Nikki Tranter
Nikki Tranter has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Criminology from La Trobe University in Melbourne and George Mason University in the U.S., and an M.A. in Professional Communication from Deakin University in Melbourne. She likes her puppy (Fulci the Fox Terrier), reading, painting, Take That, country music, and watching TV. Her favorite movie is Teen Wolf.
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[5.Mar.08] :. "I think that, except for its ludicrous violence toward the end, the Death Sentence movie does depict its character's decline and the stupidity of vengeful vigilantism." Death Wish creator Brian Garfield talks to PopMatters about remakes, sequels, writing, and the meaning of vengeance.
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[28.Sep.06] :. "I do believe that, that even when someone is "bothering" the coffee drinkers, you can look around the audience and find folks connecting and digging what he or she is doing, and from those connections, all sorts of good things emerge, immediately or further on down the road."
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[19.Mar.07] :. This is not a revised look at new-young-adult ideals: it's an age-old crock.
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DVDs
[2.Mar.07] :. This Tori is a performance. The real Tori is clearly much cooler. Don't you just hate her?
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DVDs
[8.Feb.07] :. A Work in Progress reveals the good person that Jann Arden is, but not enough of the good musician that she is.
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DVDs
[15.Dec.06] :. Returning to Friends, as the cliché goes, is like visiting an old friend. It's also very much a step back in time; to our own history as much as television history.
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Books
[22.Nov.06] :. In an exuberant, faultlessly pleasant manner, the authors take us behind the Hollywood curtain and into a world often misunderstood.
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Featured Article
 Music
[23.Dec.05] :. This box set isn't simply a look back at Joel's career; it's a document of the artist as a creator and interpreter.
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 Music
[13.Dec.05] :. Reba is divinity unmatched. Even if this hits collection is entirely superfluous.
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[1.Dec.05] :. If jeans-wearing were an Olympic sport, Dwight Yoakam would win every single medal and possibly even lead some sort of honorary jeans-parade.
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 Music
[16.Nov.05] :. Kim Fox's songs on Listen to the Music are little literary gems.
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[14.Oct.05] :. Baaba Maal: Senegal is a trip to another world with Baaba leading the way through music, dance, and spirituality.
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 Music
[6.Oct.05] :. It's never too late to discover Lynn Miles.
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PopMatters Pick
 Music
[27.Sep.05] :. Trisha Yearwood is back with her best album to date.
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Blog posts
Re:Print
[23.Jul.08] :. From the New York Times:
Lyall Watson, a maverick scientific polymath and explorer who wrote the best-selling book “Supernature” and introduced the “hundredth monkey”...
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[18.Jul.08] :. She'd been away so long, I missed her return. It was only while attempting to organise my Firefox Bookmarks tab that I stumbled across new posts on Lou Reads. Prior, I'd not read anything new...
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[16.Jul.08] :. Kate Summerscale has won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for her book, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House (Bloomsbury). Summerscale spent the better part of two...
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[15.Jul.08] :. Got a spare 30 minutes? Head over to the Mail Online for the most delicious read of the week: a long excerpt from Christopher Ciccone's Life with My Sister Madonna. Just make sure those 30...
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[11.Jul.08] :. From this week's Denver Post:
The 34-year-old Denver man also was sentenced to 10 years in state prison Tuesday for checking out roughly 1,400 books and DVDs and reselling most of them...
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