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  Magicland

  I’m not equating him with Hitler, mind you, or Joe Smith or Jim Jones. I’m just trying to understand my own compulsion.

  Laurie WinerJul 1, 2011

• Glimmers of Family: Harmony Holiday's "Negro League Baseball"

  Negro League Baseball may be tough going for the average reader, yet its rewards are bountiful.

  Jun 30, 2011

• Scrappiness

  Poets who don’t want their unpublished poems to see the light of day should — as Auden did -- take to burning them.

  Eric GudasJun 30, 2011

  • Poetry

• War Zone: Mathias Énard's "Zone"

  Mirkovic fixates upon two types of men, not always separate: writers and war criminals.

  Jun 29, 2011

• The Ceiling Worker: Ben Katchor's "The Cardboard Valise"

  Jun 28, 2011

• Yizkor Bukher

  On my trip to Poland this past winter, I brought the perfect book as my traveling companion.

  Jun 27, 2011
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  Odious and Unpleasant

  For all the talk of information overload, we are all of us a little behind on our reading.

  Jun 25, 2011
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  Ball of Fire: An Interview with Jimmy McDonough

  It’s hard to talk about this stuff without it sounding like “The Steam From My Blowhole, Part 47.”

  Jonathan PennerJun 24, 2011
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  The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg

  Tense existential snapshots of sudden violence.

  Jun 23, 2011
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  The Criminal Kind: Geezer Noir

  "A collection of twenty-eight tales in the slef-defined niche of "geezer noir."

  Jun 23, 2011
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  Fresh Pulp and Geezer Noir

  Trying to pin down the definitive characteristics of “noir” is a tiresome game.

  Jun 23, 2011

• Three-Dimensional Wistfulness

  Jun 23, 2011

• A Wilderness of Contradictions: On Soft Skull's Deep Focus Series

  Improbably close readings of questionably canonical texts are the order of the day in these books.

  Jun 22, 2011

• Libya, 1931

  On four cylinders and inner tubes about to suffer dozens of punctures, Holmboe encountered the diverse and often impassable landscapes of the Sahara.

  Jun 21, 2011

• Home Pages

  A story of "a very imperfect life lived among very imperfect houses," written in homage to the yearnings that have fueled her lifelong game of house.

  Jun 20, 2011
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  AUDIO ARCHIVE

  Jun 20, 2011