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August 2003

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An interview with Steve Almond

"When I'm in front of an audience, I'm on a mission to get people to read more. My book, any book, whatever. Just to get them to think about their internal lives a bit. This culture is running as fast as they can away from the truth of themselves and how they really feel. " by Jessa Crispin

An interview with Oscar Casares

"Sometimes they didn't even know it existed. I'd tell them about Brownsville, and they'd think I was talking about a fictional place." by Michael Schaub

I Fell Asleep At the Eisners And Other Stories from Comic-con

After all, what young girl doesn't dream of writing about superheroes? Okay, a lot of them. But they're not very interesting people. by Liz Miller

reviews

Fiction

  • Prince by Ib Michael
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  • Kissing You by Daniel Hayes
  • Konfidenz by Ariel Dorfman
  • Victims by Travis Jeppesen
  • The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo by Al Capp
  • The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
  • The Right Number (Chapter 1) by Scott McCloud
  • The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
  • The Locklear Letters by Michael Kun
  • Three Novellas by Thomas Bernhard

Nonfiction

  • Fried Butter by Abe Opincar
  • How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
  • Patrick: the Pilgrim Apostle of Ireland by Maire B. de Paor
  • Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander
  • American Massacre by Sally Denton
  • The CIA's Control of Candy Jones by Donald Bain
  • Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics by Frederic Spotts

Poetry

  • Essays on Poetry by Ralph Mills, Jr.
  • Cold Spring: A Diary by Tom Clark

Hundred Books project

  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

columns

21st Century Fox

  • My Vagina has a First Name

Big in Japan

  • The Compulsory Technical Program

Bookslut with Baby

  • Reading with Baby

Comicbookslut

  • Micropayments

Cookslut

  • Prep Work

Fear Factor

  • "The Horrifying Bones"?

La Marquise

  • She is Butt Girl! She is Adventure Girl! She is Tristan Taormino!

Propaganda!

  • The new anti-rockers: Godz original gangstas

Scarlet Woman of Self-Help

  • Dating: A Survival Guide from the Front Lines by Josie Vogel