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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: From Page to Screen

26Jan10

by The Great White Gypsy I am a David Foster Wallace groupie. There, I said it. The man has a fairly small body of work; aside from magazine articles, he only wrote two novels and four short story/essay collections before committing suicide in 2008. Even so, he had already established himself as a genius of [...]

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Infinite Summer

24Jun09

Summer is in full swing. The sun’s coming out more, people are busting out the shorts and flip-flops, the girls are rocking the sundresses. Summer is great. And if you’re anything like me, no matter how much time you spend outside, you need a good book with you while you’re getting a tan and pretending [...]

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An Underachiever’s Diary: Benjamin Anastas (1999)

24Jun09

by The Great White Gypsy This is a short book about the older of two identical twins. William is just as intelligent as his brother, Clive, but doesn’t apply himself, or go through the standard Freudian stages of childhood with the same speed and grace as his twin. His parents are pop-developmental psychology followers, and [...]

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Wonder Boys (1995): Michael Chabon

13Apr09

by The Great White Gypsy Yeah, I know, you can’t hear that title without singing Tenacious D’s catchy song. It’s all I heard in my head for the week I was reading this book, though I tried not to let it detract from the story. As with most of his novels, Michael Chabon’s story in [...]

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Update: Superhero Week

08Apr09

I know Superhero week was interrupted by the Ashland Film Festival, and we’ve been done for a week, but reading the Watchmen novel took forever, and this is my first literature review, so give me a break. We’ll have an interesting music review to finish off our superhero craze, and then we’re back to regularly [...]