Curiosities: Inside and Outside the Beltway

From one muckracker to another: Thomas Frank on Mailer and Miami.
Fear and Loathing at Build-a-Bear Workshop
The folks at n+1 on Obama and the culture war redux
Sarah, the book, nibbles at the edges of Amazon’s Top 10, sparking its own kind of culture war in the reviews section (scroll down)
Can Palin! The Musical be far behind?
A new tool for mapping bookstores, chain and indie
For Salvadoran novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya, politics are a genetic burden
Frank O’Hara…yeah, New York will do that to you
Jonathan Yardley on the venerable Elements of Style
Don’t blame me…I voted for Kodos

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