Ray Raphael’s new book Constitutional Myths is about how average folks, scholars, and Supreme Court justices misunderstand the Constitution as a result of incomplete or selective knowledge of its origins and the beliefs of those responsible for its creation. Continue reading
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BOOK ‘EM: CONSTITUTIONAL MYTHS BY RAY RAPHAEL
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REVIEW: THE STUD BOOK BY MONICA DRAKE
Monica Drake’s first novel, Clown Girl, has been optioned for film by Kristen Wiig. When that flick gets made even your long dead grandmother will know who Monica Drake is.
And who she is, as evidenced by her new novel The Stud Book, is an author who knows how to craft a sharp satire that’s riddled with unexpectedly poignant moments. Continue reading
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BOOK ‘EM: WHAT’S WRONG WITH HOMOSEXUALITY? BY JOHN CORVINO
Professor John Corvino drives home the point—seemingly untenable to some—that homosexual and heterosexual relationships are (for better and worse, for richer or poorer, and in sickness and in health) not that different from each other. Continue reading
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REVIEW: FEED BY M. T. ANDERSON
“A chilling and darkly writ satire that seesaws effortlessly from sardonically funny to unexpectedly heartbreaking.”
September will mark the tenth anniversary of Cambridge author M.T. Anderson’s dystopian novel Feed; yesterday marks the one day anniversary of having my mind shattered by it. To celebrate the occasion (the former, not the latter), Somerville’s Candlewick Press is unleashing a paperback edition of the book. Feed is the rare novel that warrants a re-release. The story it sends, chainsaw shimmying down your spine, is even more relevant today than it was ten years prior.
The novel is chilling in the way only a well crafted and darkly writ satire can be.
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REVIEW: A MONSTER CALLS BY PATRICK NESS
Review of A Monster Calls, a “crepsucular and elegantly written and illustrated” young-adult fantasy book by Patrick Ness, Jim Kay and Siobhan Dowd. Continue reading
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REVIEW: A GREATER MONSTER BY DAVID DAVID KATZMAN
A review of author David David Katzman’s new insane novel A Greater Monster. “This book will alter your molecular makeup, steal your car and get your cat pregnant before it skips town. Like a new world’s Dante making his way through Technicolor cantos in a pop art Inferno. Katzman reads like William S. Burroughs by way of Maurice Sendak.” Continue reading
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REVIEW: ME THE PEOPLE BY KEVIN BLEYER
I am very serious when I say that teachers and professors should use this book in their classes…….just kidding, but not really. Continue reading
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BILL’S BOOK CORNER: BILL INSULTS KEITH RICHARDS
Hey Dig. Here’s my piece for this week. I can’t look at it again, I’m too tired. I hate to be dramatic but I got hit by a car this morning.
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LITSCENE: TOMO, AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS, AND JOHN ELDER ROBISON
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami hit off the coast of Tohoku, Japan. The tsunami caused a massive amount of devastation to the Tohoku region, but out of the devastation came people with stories to tell about Japan. Continue reading
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RULES OF CIVILITY
There’s something wistful about these characters with their clear ambitions, their simple hearts behind sharp tongues— Continue reading
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BORN TO RUN
With our city’s marathon behind us, the general public can go back to ignoring running. Anyone who bought a fresh pair of running shoes has given up on their goals of getting into shape and “totally doing the next one.” Beyond 26.2 miles lies ultra marathons, where brave, battered souls push their bones through 100+ miles of foot-to-ground-love. Continue reading
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TOXICOLOGY
Jessica Hagedorn’s latest is a gritty portrait of two different-but-in-some-ways-the-same women in the West Village, surrounded by sex, drugs and general sketchiness. Continue reading
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