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I have a few certainties in life: Everyone likes The Beatles and everyone has a friend who pretends they’re just OK.  The NBA was rigged from the very late 1990s to the early 2000s. Jordan left basketball because of gambling. Michael Jackson was innocent. Bush didn’t knock down the Towers. Our cable news will never [...]

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Rules for writing seem counter-intuitive, if you really think about them. The best writing seeks to live within these rules, for the sake of others actually engaging with the text, and yet prose of the highest level should feel like it is escaping its own constraints. High school teachers are perpetually employed under the dictum [...]

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Want to advance your career? The Cisco Certification 640-816 Exam is crucial to your success and Interactive Learning is how you can achieve it. The Cisco 640-816: Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 2 exam obviously follows Part 1 and is one of the exams related to the Certified Network Associate certification, and a necessary step [...]

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Before we go any further, look at this list. Look at this motherfucking list. It is not usually within O2LSports’ policy to be vulgar without merit, but are you fucking kidding me with that shit? This list doesn’t even include painters, rock stars, actors, or even attempted writer suicides. 291 entries for ‘famous writer suicides’. [...]

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Allen Ginsberg stands in the rare company of being an author whose name invokes a deluge of sentiments, eras, movements, and anecdotes. For Shakespeare, readers think of the king of playwrights; for Defoe, readers think of “the first novelist”; for Voltaire, Wilde, and Moliere: “satirist”; for Kerouac, Ginsberg, and the Beat poets: “revolution”. But even [...]

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I find it entirely appropriate that Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, wrote the foreword to DFW’s monster. Not just because this book is a work of genius, but because a man who can put a title so brazen upon his memoir is akin to the audience for this book. In short, [...]

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Question: How do the two Charlottes change the meaning of Jennifer Egan’s Look at Me? The first Charlotte is a teenager. Her brother is battling leukemia and she is battling the natural urges of a teenager: to be seen and to be desired. Things come full-circle with the second Charlotte, who is a model-turned-medical-procedure somewhat shunned [...]

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What interests me secondmost to the overall conceit of the book, which is too large and complex to discuss in a brief review, are the artifacts mentioned in Saddam’s war room. As is often the occasion, the smallest items in a novel bear the biggest significance. Small items must have significance to warrant mentioning; otherwise, [...]

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Two years ago, I was assigned Understanding Comics, a reading on the psychology of comic books by Scott McCloud. In 2012, comic books have risen to a true art form: graphic novels. Not only are many of the illustrations as un-cartoonish as possible, but the writing is, well, sharp. There are no more BLAMs and [...]

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TIME Magazine really wanted Jonathan Franzen to be the Next Great American Author. I wanted to buy into it, too, before I had read any of his books. As you can imagine, that set me up for disappointment. Franzen is a vibrant, skilled author and, as he will admit, not quite on par with the [...]

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