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Cheryl Strayed's Wild Is a 2nd Skin for the Soul

By Anna Pulley | Tue, April 3, 2012

Cheryl Strayed is a motherfucking heart surgeon. Her new memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, is the wound. But it's also the healing, and it's also the raw, muscular puls... More »
A Hole in the Iron Curtain

By : Paul M. Davis | Wed, February 08, 2012

What is it about North Korea that so ignites the Western imagination? Is it the air of exoticism the West projects upon this defiant, seemingly unknowable Asian land? The novelty of a modern country that exists outside of time? Panic over the nati... More »
Jane Smiley: Writers Need Community More Than They Need Solitude

By Emily Wilson | Mon, December 12, 2011

Among the most famous of all the famous writers who came out of the celebrated Iowa Writers' Workshop is the prolific and talented Jane Smiley. Smiley has written more than 10 novels, including the ep... More »
Slaughterhouse Revisited

By Paul M. Davis | Wed, November 30, 2011

Kurt Vonnegut isn’t merely the foul-mouthed author perennially popular among surly, booksmart teenagers. He was also a humane political satirist cut from the Mark Twain cloth, assuring him bogeyman status among the Fox News commentariat, and ensur... More »
Spencer Tracy Biographer James Curtis Depicts Actor as a Troubled, Conflicted Master

By Casey Burchby | Tue, November 15, 2011

When Spencer Tracy died in 1967, he was beloved by the movie-going public for his portrayals of decent men of conviction and integrity (Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremburg, Boys Town) as well as b... More »
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