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- Current TV: That's Gay “Humorous deconstructions of gay stereotypes in media and popular culture.”
- PhD Comics Jokes on academia sorted with informative animated videos.
- Target: Women by Sarah Haskins Hilarious examples of sexist advertisements and cultural trends. The videos are now scattered, so YouTube/Google as many as you can!!
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Tag Archives: Michael Chabon
Reading Suggestions for March/April 2015
I’ve posted a list of reading I’m doing this month. Included are some fantastic writers offering chilling whodunits, contemporary literary lights strutting their stuff, and modernists constantly upending our expectations. Enjoy.
The 50 Year Argument: Film Profiles of Great Minds
I have watched (and re-watched, and re-watched) Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s filmed love letter to the New York Review of Books, celebrating its 50th anniversary last year: The Fifty Year Argument (2014). This documentary is a smorgasbord of intellectual, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Journalism, Literature, Reviews
Tagged Bob Silvers, Daniel Mendelsohn, Derek Walcott, Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Michael Chabon, New York Review of Books, Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Susan Sontag, The 50 Year Argument, Town Bloody Hall, United States of Amnesia, Zoe Heller
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