Culturally Speaking #24: The Mostly Literary Edition
By Sarah Stodola
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If we can forget for a moment that this ship poses what has become a quite newsworthy security risk, as far as terrorist targets are concerned, then a look at this photo and the article that it accompanies harkens right back to his completely romanticized time called the early 20th century, when cruise ship arrivals were an Event. Lovely.
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This article questions whether the political novel is dead. I have a feeling that in the next decade or so, such novels will see resurgence.
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Interview with Happy Baby author Stephen Elliot on Identity Theory.
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The online lit journal Facsimilation has gone into book publishing.
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New books on contemporary Japanese fashion, a phenomenon of exaggeration that deserves some looking in to...
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Jonathan Ames conducted a contest to find the most phallic building in the world.
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Why are they waiting all the way until May 19 to announce the lineup for the 2004 Summerstage?
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Did this author not realize the confusion she would cause by naming her novel Eyeshot? Eyeshot had it first.
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Sarah Stodola is the Managing Editor of Me Three. She can be contacted at [email protected].
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