Monday, October 26, 2009
James Parker: "Let Us Now Praise: The Cliché"
Great piece from James Parker in The Sunday Boston Globe.
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BOOKS I'VE READ, 2009
- The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño (started in 2008)
- Robin Hood, by Don Nigro
- The Areas of My Expertise, by John Hodgman
- Arkham Asylum, by Grant Morrison & Dave McKean
- The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
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- Astro City: Life In The Big City, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, & Alex Ross
- Pride of Baghdad, by Brian K. Vaughan & Niko Henrichon
- Gotham Central: Unresolved Targets, by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, et al.
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- The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
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- The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
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