PLANET OF PERIL (51)
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MEDIA DIET
Annalee Newitz on: paperbacks, “Interview with the Vampire,” 404Media.
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Steve Coogan
As the trickster-philosopher Tony Wilson in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People STEVE COOGAN (born 1965) was jaunty, vulnerable, inspired, and frequently full of...
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13th
Oct
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The Book is a Weapon (3)
Artist: Broder, S. Title: “Books are weapons in the war of ideas : books cannot be killed by fire” Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S....
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13th
Oct
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Sacha Baron Cohen
The world’s foremost contemporary comic theorist led a teenage breakdance crew, and wrote his Cambridge thesis on the American Civil Rights movement before he...
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12th
Oct
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Middlebrow Bestsellers — Week of 10/11/09
1) THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. (Penguin, $15.) A former climber builds schools in villages in Pakistan and...
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12th
Oct
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Aleister Crowley
ALEISTER CROWLEY (1875–1947) Mountaineer, fiendish hedonist, and magus incandescent, ALEISTER CROWLEY (1875–1947) remains one of the more remarkable figures of Edwardian letters, though his...
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11th
Oct
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Winds of Magic (5): Pants afire
If your father presided over a blood-drinking sex cult whose membership also included the mailman, the doctor, the town drunk, and representatives of the...
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11th
Oct
Oct
Harlan Stone
Along with Justices Brandeis and Cardozo, Justice (later Chief Justice) HARLAN STONE (1872-1946) was counted among the Three Musketeers — the progressive minority of...
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