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My Son Went to Heaven, and All I Got Was a No. 1 Best Seller

At 3 years 10 months, Colton Burpo was a sunny child, a preacher’s son certain of his faith and his eternal fate. Then his appendix burst, and as doctors failed to figure out what was wrong with him,…
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)

The Most Dangerous Gamer

Like many wealthy people, Jonathan Blow vividly remembers the moment he became rich. At the time, in late 2008, he was $40,000 in debt and living in a modest San Francisco apartment, having just…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2632 words)

walking in urban areas

She stumbles through the city streets, her eyes now unfocused – absorbing a confusion of grey, brown and red parallelograms, that she knows to be crushingly weighty, and yet which she feels to…
AUTHOR:Will Self
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2115 words)

Bring back the 40-hour work week

This article originally appeared on AlterNet.If you’re lucky enough to have a job right now, you’re probably doing everything possible to hold onto it. If the boss asks you to work 50…
PUBLISHED: March 14, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4112 words)

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

LEE GUTKINDon John D’Agata and Jim Fingal’s The Lifespan of a Fact. John D’Agata and Jim FingalThe Lifespan of a Fact W.W. Norton & Company, February 2012. 128 pp.A writer…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2690 words)

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

Don Johnson finds it hard to remember the exact cards. Who could? At the height of his 12-hour blitz of the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, last April, he was playing a hand of…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2248 words)

The Community of Its Time

According to the internet, television network executives are a bunch of deplorable scumbags. They are wretched slime, only existing to please the philistines that situate themselves in the middle of…
SOURCE:Splitsider
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2686 words)

The Poetry Of Ally Sheedy: A Look Back

February marked the twenty-first anniversary of the publication of a book of poems by the gifted actor Ally Sheedy. It was called Yesterday I Saw the Sun, and she was famously excoriated for it.…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3041 words)
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Danger! High-radiation arthouse!

Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1980) came second, behind Blade Runner, in a recent BFI poll of its members' top movies. In outline, it's one of the simplest films ever made: a guide, or Stalker, takes…
AUTHOR:Geoff Dyer
PUBLISHED: Feb. 6, 2009
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1674 words)
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