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Andre Dubus III's The House of Sand and Fog was probably THE saddest, most wrenching book we ever read. We were hoping his latest, The Garden of Last Days , would be similar in its delicious soul-killing-ness. But Janet Maslin doesn't think so...
Hell to the yes. "Fine Lines," the newish Friday feature at ultimate lady-blog Jezebel just keeps getting more and more delish. The past fortnight showcased two of our especial YA favorites: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger and Elizabeth...
Courtesy of The New Yorker An interesting little literary roundtable of sorts happened in our corner of the Phoenix HQ today. We were discussing our fondness for a story in The New Yorker 's winter fiction issue by Anne Enright, called " Natalie...
A piece in the New York Times ' business section today about author Ayn Rand and her economic legacy got us thinking. We read all of Rand's fiction back in high school, when we were feeling rebellious and anti-establishment and hating on adolescent...
The YouTube tags for this one are: Bukowski, poetry, beer, shit. He uses the word "moxie" which is amazing in and of itself. Watch. Rewind. Repeat.
Dear Oprah, Please stop it. Now when I recommed Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex to people as one of my favorite coming-of-age novels of all time, they're going to be like, Gag, wasn't that shit on Oprah? Soon you'll put your Oprah Seal of...
Sharon, the more active half of Word Up, sent me an email this afternoon about literary hot shit Marisha Pessl, author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics , and her latest appearance in the New York Times , looking super-sultry in a photo accompanying...
