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Jennifer Wallace on I Swear I Saw This by Michael Taussig

“The Mastery of Non-Mastery”

March 30th, 2012
E.C. McCarthy on The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

“Mixed Memories”

February 27th, 2012
Cullen Gallagher on Already Gone by John Rector

“Mysterious Thugs”

January 23rd, 2012
John Clute on In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood

“Margaret Atwood and the S and F Words”

November 27th, 2011
Dean Rader on Blood Run by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

“Memory May Not Sustain”

November 24th, 2011
Cullen Gallagher on Kiss Her Goodbye by Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane

“Mike Hammer is Back”

September 17th, 2011
Veronica Gonzalez on Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman

“Mourning and Melancholia”

August 17th, 2011
Nikil Saval on Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit

“Mapping the Bay Area ”

July 28th, 2011
Janet Fitch on By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham

“The Middle Years”

May 25th, 2011
Jocelyn Heaney on Fragments by Marilyn Monroe

“Marilynalia”

May 10th, 2011
Rob Latham on Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography, Kingdom Come and The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard, J.G. Ballard and J.G. Ballard

“A Malaise Deeper Than Shopping”

May 6th, 2011
Matthew Specktor on Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

“Mr. Sublimation”

May 4th, 2011
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