Too Young for Too Long: On Daniel Torday’s ‘Boomer1’
What else should we make of social media, online brands, and the dopamine jackpot of going viral, other than a monetization of individual histories?
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Books and Mortar: Eso Won Books in Los Angeles
As water flows over rocks, so does knowledge flow through books. Books have knowledge and reading books gives you knowledge and power.
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Chopped Cheese and Pure Evil: On Alcy Leyva’s ‘And Then There Were Crows’
The whole business of protecting New York from pure evil could devolve into a depressing and torturous burden but Leyva is willing to be funny about it all.
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Sy Montgomery Wants Us to Embrace Our Inner Animal
Animals have so many admirable qualities that we would be better humans if we worked harder to emulate our non-human friends.
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The Trump Administration Has Finally Brought Us to Dystopia
This is the dreaded commonality at the root of mainline dystopian fiction: the simple formula, “government authority > family independence.”
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Everything Matters, Nothing Matters: The Millions Interviews Daniel Torday
I suspect art’s place will grow stronger the uglier civic and political life gets. Not “content.” Not “vertically integrated media.” FUCKING ART.
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A Eulogy for Two Unsung Heroes of Egyptian Literature: Yahya Haqqi and Sabri Moussa
Yahya Haqqi deserves a eulogy about his place in Egyptian literary heritage. Sabri Moussa deserves a eulogy for his film scripts, short fiction, and novels.
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