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"But man that ain't nothing." Tayvon pulls his shirt back down after showing me the scar that extends below his waistband to his groin and up to his sternum. About an inch-wide, raised, milky shee...[MORE]
Thanks to journalists such as Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), buried somewhere deep in Americans' meat-loving unconscious is the vague knowledge that the ground beef grabbed from the superm...[MORE]
Prior to evolving into the gravity-defying-coif-sporting, catchphrase-spouting enfant terrible who walked away with Project Runway's fourth season title, Christian Siriano was a self-described "littl...[MORE]
What's that line? Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. It popped into my head a lot over the first 289 pages of John Ortved's The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, and...[MORE]
Of course Robert Altman gets an oral biography. What better way to tell the life story of a filmmaker whose trademark was overlapping dialog that offered many levels of information and occasional com...[MORE]
Renowned writer and critic Terry Teachout has some fairly serious Maryland ties. Not only did he attend St. John's College, but he wrote 2002's The Skeptic: The Life of H.L. Mencken, an esteemed biogr...[MORE]
In 2001, info on Arthur Russell--the nearly forgotten disco/folk/minimalist auteur just then being reintroduced to the post-rave generation via retro-focused compilations such as Strut's 2000 Disco ...[MORE]
Devil's Dream's frontispiece includes a photograph of the small-eyed, dark-bearded Civil War general Nathan Forrest. He looks like he's daring you to tell him that his side lost the war. Prepare to f...[MORE]
As a teacher I never made anyone read Sapphire’s 1996 Push. I never promoted it. I just had it available in the classroom, lying around. It’s a book that would never be officially assigned, a book tha...[MORE]
On page one of The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (Speck Press), jazz historian and corporate consultant Ted Gioia writes that the word cool has become "a verbal tic expressing approval of any sort ....[MORE]
"When I was in college, one of the TAs of one of my writing seminars asked me, 'Why are all your stories about kids?'" Natalie Standiford recalls. At the time, she says, "I thought, Well, I'm 18, wha...[MORE]
Thank you, BET, for reminding everybody that it was on this day that 1970s crime fiction lost one of its most immediate storytellers: Detroit's Donald Goines and his common-law wife were murdered 35 y...[MORE]
Erstwhile City Paper contributor Violet Glaze becomes a full-fledged writer today, and not a mere ink-stained hack like the rest of us here in alt-weekly journalism. Her debut paranormal erotic e-book...[MORE]
The crowd at the 10th annual conference of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society that gathered in Baltimore Sept. 30-Oct. 3 was older, but not uniformly so, and perhaps a bit tweedy, but not entirely. The s...[MORE]
Consider: One morning Mary sees her husband Steven off to his first day at an aluminum beverage-container manufacturer. He returns looking broken, a shell of the man who left that morning. The next da...[MORE]
A music writer whose bylines have appeared everywhere from Spin to the Chicago Tribune, Renaissance woman Jessica Hopper is also a music consultant for This American Life and has logged serious ti...[MORE]
Let's get one thing nice and sparkling clear: Thomas Pynchon's new Inherent Vice (Penguin Press), his seventh novel, isn't the best work of his career. That honor goes to 1997's verbally ambitious...[MORE]
Jerry Leiber once told me that joining the board of the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 1985 was one of the highlights of his life. After years of being dismissed for writing rock 'n' roll hits for Elvis...[MORE]
When former federal prosecutor Paul Butler appeared on 60 Minutes in 1996 to explain his critique of America's criminal-justice system in The Yale Law Journal, he was introduced portentously by one ...[MORE]
The "literary graphic novel" has been both a boon and a bane to comics as an art form, given that so much of what's been produced under the banner rarely works as comics. A comic's narrative pleasure...[MORE]
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