January 2010
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A Celebration of David Foster Wallace →
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Nine peers pay tribute with a talk or essay. Strong suggestion.
Amy Wallace-Havens is David’s sister. She is a deputy public defender in southern Arizona. Bonnie Nadell is vice president of Frederick Hill Bonnie Nadell Agency in Los Angeles. Gerry Howard is an executive editor at large for Doubleday. Colin Harrison is a novelist, and a vice president and senior editor at Scribner....
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Grizzly Bear - Boy From...
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Joy Division - Disorder
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“The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and...”
– Joan Didion, ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem,’ (1968)
Fever Ray - I’m Not Done
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The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made...
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Liars - Freak Out
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“Hey man, I’m slingin’ mad volume and fat stacking benjies, you know...”
– Skinny Pete, Breaking Bad (Season 2, Episode 6 ‘Peekaboo’)
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A Little Light Reading
This is my bedside table at the moment, and all of these are ‘on the go’ (so to speak). I’ve got my classic literature (‘Madame Bovary’), some poetry (T.S. Eliot), some historical fiction (‘Ragtime’), short stories (‘Girl with Curious Hair’), and not one but two books on horror movies read through the lens of feminist film theory (Carol J....
Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf
“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love...”
– Roberto Bolano, 2666
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'Death Bear' To The Rescue
“We all have someone or something we would rather just forget. Things fall apart. Love hurts. Dreams die. But when you summon Death Bear to your door, you can rest assured that help has come. At first you may be intimidated by his stature and color (7 feet tall with a hard, black bear head, black jumpsuit, and black boots), but absorbing the memories of others is a dark art, and Death Bear...
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Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)
