Archive

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  Fix-up Artist: The Chaotic SF of A.E. van Vogt

  "The disjointed novel is more in vogue today than at any previous point in history."

  Ted GioiaApr 30, 2012
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  The Embers of April 1992

  "Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."

  Mike DavisApr 30, 2012
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  PODCAST: Jonathan Lethem on Talking Heads' Fear of Music

  "Can we just not be intense for a minute, please?"

  Andy ZaxApr 30, 2012
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  Perched on Nothingness

  Juan Felipe HerreraApr 30, 2012
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  Reburning LA — The Literature of 1992

  “Not knowing” in media-saturated L.A. is our only universally shared condition. We have a literature about Los Angeles in which a city we partly recog

  Apr 29, 2012

• Talking Heads' "Fear of Music"

  Andy ZaxApr 29, 2012
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  Reality Hunger: On Lena Dunham’s “Girls”

  For Hannah, talking is a way of coming to terms with, and owning, her appetites.

  Jane HuApr 28, 2012
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  Myths and Depths: Greil Marcus talks to Simon Reynolds (Part 1)

  "This is all I have to write about: my own mystified childhood."

  Simon ReynoldsApr 27, 2012
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  Winsome Ghosts in the Machine: Joan Gordon’s “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”

  They seem alive, even though they are without bodies: they act independently and individually, have preferences, suffer, learn, [and] become depressed

  Joan GordonApr 27, 2012

• Rob Schmitz pt 1

  Angilee ShahApr 26, 2012
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  PODCAST: China, Apple Factories, Suicide, and Big Lies

  The man who busted Mike Daisey.

  Angilee ShahApr 26, 2012
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  Mr. Amis’s Planet

  Martin Amis has always been a casualty of his own biography.

  Morten Høi JensenApr 25, 2012
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  DeLillo's Inclinations Toward the Sacred

  Sometime in the late 1970s, Don DeLillo stopped being embarrassed by his own inclinations toward the sacred.

  Cornel BoncaApr 24, 2012

• Before Sunset

  "Mostly there is love, conventional and otherwise, which trumps all."

  Denise HamiltonApr 23, 2012
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  Weetzie Bat Meets the Genie

  "Block paints Los Angeles in late-eighties' Rococo: Patrick Nagel doing the Go-Gos in dayglo."

  Bennett MadisonApr 23, 2012

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  The LARB Interview: Francesca Lia Block

  Clarissa RomanoApr 23, 2012