Monthly Archives: July 2012

Patriotic Radical

Posted on July 31, 2012 by kara

America’s most controversial writer Gore Vidal has died…. First things first, Vidal HATED the Bush’s. All of them. He called W a “cretin”. He was a  ferocious, and often isolated, critic of the Bush administration. In his controversial polemic, ‘The Enemy Within’, … Continue reading →

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On the Nightstand

Posted on July 9, 2012 by kara

I just started Sheila Heti’s new book and am taking the bold step of talking about it before finishing it. The novel, about a female playwright obsessed with becoming the world’s most famous genius, has been reviewed by James Wood in The … Continue reading →

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