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Accessibility's Rainbow: Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice'new
A mere three years after the infamously reclusive author released Against the Day, a 1,000-plus-page world’s fair of themes, characters and pastiched genres, Pynchon may have thrown us his strangest curveball yet by delivering a novel that is accessible, readable, and relatively short: that is, rather un-Pynchonesque.
Tags: Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
Alt.comicsnew
Bizarro World turns alternative and independent comics creators, television writers and even a few musicians loose on Superman, Batman and the rest of DC Comics' superhero universe.
Dear Godnew
An exceedingly controversial book gets people talking about the problems of tolerating religious fundamentalism -- but doesn't provide good alternatives.
Metroland |
Gene Mirabelli |
02-09-2006 |
Nonfiction
DIY Booksnew
Putting out your own book is still considered far more tacky than putting out your own CD -- but self-published authors are betting that's going to change.
If You Write It: A Green in the White Housenew
Activist Mark Dunlea put his hard-earned political knowledge into Madame President, a novel about a female, Green Party president that he hopes will have a positive impact on the system.
Metroland |
Shawn Stone |
08-19-2004 |
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