AltWeeklies Wire
Sex and scatology, cadavers and ghosts: the indecorous enthusiasms of author Mary Roachnew
An interview with Mary Roach.
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The worlds of the suddenly hot George Saundersnew
George Saunders reads in the FHI Garage in Bay 4 of Smith Warehouse
Cory Doctorow on the teen imagination, paranoia and the late Aaron Swartznew
"It's very hard to adequately understand, in advance, the cost of privacy disclosures and of privacy breaches. Because privacy and its consequences are separated by a lot of time and space."
Frank Deford's memoir of the sportswriting high lifenew
Frank Deford is one of America's greatest sportswriters, and although his new memoir, Over Time, probably isn't the place to discover why, it's an engaging, raffish ramble through his 50 years in the peculiar business of writing about sports.
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Jeff Sharlet's Moving Study of Religious Experiencenew
This elegantly written collection of stories features characters such as philosopher Cornel West, fundamentalist Christians, anarchists, a New Age healer and a Jewish author and Holocaust survivor. In his portrayals of imperfect, even broken people, Jeff Sharlet toes the fault lines of religious or quasi-religious experience.
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The South Through Two Booksnew
New Stories from the South, edited by Edward P. Jones, features fiction stories reveal the South may be just like the rest of the U.S. But James L. Peacock's Grounded Globalism argues that the South's identity helps it interact with the rest of the world.
