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Features
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:. The Gospel According to Butch: Part 3—The Artist

Columns
Lowbrow Literati: Are We All Mythtaken About Star Wars?
Jazz Today: Spinach and Broccoli Music: An Interview with Composer and Drummer John Hollenbeck

Blogs
Short Ends and Leader: ‘Mr. Fox’ is Indeed ‘Fantastic’
Re:Print: The Fate of the Epistolary Novel
Notes from the Road: Devo + JP Incorporated: 23 November 2009 - Phoenix Theatre, Toronto
Mixed Media: Headlights - “Love Song for Buddy” (video)
Channel Surfing: All That Ends, Should End Well on TV
Consuming Consumables: Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Marginal Utility: Refuting the paradox of choice

Music
:. The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set)
:. John Mayer: Battle Studies
:. Duran Duran: Rio Special Limited Edition / Live at Hammersmith ‘82!
:. Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard: One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur
:. Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
:. Heavy Trash: Midnight Soul Serenade
:. Otto: Certa Manhã Acordei de Sonhos Intranquilos

Events
:. Galactic + Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle: 6 November 2009 - Austin, TX

Film
:. The Road
:. Ninja Assassin

DVDs
:. The L Word: The Final Season
:. Frailty
:. The Monster Squad: 20th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)

Books
:. Writing in the Dark, by David Grossman
:. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne

Multimedia
:. Where the Wild Things Are

News
:. INTERVIEW:Comedian and author Aaron Karo shares his thoughts on being single
:. INTERVIEW:Ed O’Neill is married with a child in ‘Modern Family’
:. INTERVIEW:Barbara Taylor Bradford: a real ‘Woman of Substance’
:. E-readers: The price might entice readers, author notes

Reviews

Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley

By P.B. Samuelson

Despite the brilliant and clear wit that characterizes Buckley’s writing, the humor fell short here, confliced by a desire to simultaneously satirize and redeem America's system of government. [7 December 2008]

Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

By Jason B. Jones

Against such a backdrop, it must be unfathomably difficult to develop ideas and plots that remain wholly satirical, rather than lapsing into mere realism. [30 April 2007]