by Adam | Friday 22 August 2008
Loyal Readers, I don't shill for literary causes beyond my own very often, but I wanted to take a moment and make you aware of a book written by my friend Sadia Shepard which has just hit bookstores everywhere....
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by Adam | Saturday 8 March 2008
Sometimes, my friends interrupt my life to impose imperatives upon me. This has to be, in a lot ways, what friendship is about. The closest of them will demand (as I probably do too often of them) that I stop...
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by Adam | Wednesday 20 February 2008
Philip Roth has not yet left the building. We will note that Roth, growing more in his later years, has already taken pains to prepare us for the inevitable. His alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman has ushered us through the epic...
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by Adam | Wednesday 19 December 2007
What do you get when you combine three cross-sections of female target demographics and pile them into one ninety-minute romantic comedy? There is no answer to this question because I am at a consummate lack of life experience to...
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by Adam | Thursday 1 November 2007
You must be in a very strange place when you listen to a new Radiohead new album. I mean a very strange place in the physical sense, a locality which is not common to you, not a foreign emotional...
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by Adam | Wednesday 13 June 2007
...I do not speak much French and my exposure to Edith Piaf was initiated by the tribute that seemingly half of my favorite musicians pay to her work, but I went to this movie and it was a car crash on celluloid, a complete fucking disasterous mess, and perfectly emblematic of the life of the Sparrow...
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