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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and...

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Dora: A Headcase

Yuknavitch is such a literary badass. In her debut novel (following last year's fantastic memoir, The Chronology of Water), she rips Freud's classic case study to shreds, then stitches it back together...

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In the powerful finale to her too-close-for-comfort dystopian/apocalyptic trilogy (following the mind-blowingly awesome Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood), Atwood leaves us with an epic tale...

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Anyone familiar with J. J. Abrams's cultishly popular film and TV projects should know exactly what to expect from his first foray into the printed word: the unexpected. This über-meta, genre-blending...

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The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems

Bringing together 52 facsimiles of Emily Dickinson's poetry, jotted down on envelopes that functionally shape and contain her words, The Gorgeous Nothings illuminates the visual nature and linguistic...

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