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Book review: Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century, by Chuck Klosterman
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If you devoured a lot of pop culture over the last decade, you might wonder what Chuck Klosterman's latest volume, Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399184163/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&
Book review: Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Let me start off by saying that the entirety of my basketball knowledge comes from Space Jam [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M0QMM8/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theident-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B000M0QMM8&linkId=cd45cd323e04bdf37966bd7b05cd1c9f] , so this
Book Review: Practicing New Historicism, by Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt
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Book reviewers read many things, some quite strange. Yesterday, for instance, I was forwarded a press release for the "must-read non-fiction children's book of the season" about bald eagles. Today, I read a new historicist's perspective on "The Potato in the Materialist Imagination&
Book Review: American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
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What happens when the idols are no longer active and the idol worshippers are all dead? This is the conversation while driving home from seeing The Pixies at The House of Blues in Boston. Take Bob Mould. He may still be an idol of 80s alternative rockers, but how much