[Words] 
Is white, likes stuff
Blogger-turned-author Christian Lander has compiled a list of 150 items preferred by that strange culture known as white people.
[Words] 
Like Forrest Gump, except nearly two thirds blind instead of retarded
If being in the right place at the right time is tantamount to making music history, then Al Kooper has always been in the correct location—and at the most beneficial moment.
[Words] 
Chewing the fat with Toby Barlow
Very rarely does a book take over my life in such a way that everything else—meals, sleep, cocktails—seem to get in the way of my reading it.
[Words] 
Nonfiction thriller hits close to home
While working as the mental health reporter for the Boston Globe in 1995, Alison Bass received the tip of a lifetime. Donna Howard, disgusted with discoveries she'd made while in Brown University's psychiatry department, was calling to report on funding from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health that was being obtained under false pretenses.
[Words] 
A summer reading list for the literarily impaired
Summer has long been the heyday for commercial fiction, and beach reading has become synonymous with thick murder mysteries,
[Words] 
Poetry legend surfaces again
If poets were cowboys, James Tate would be The Man with No Name. It would be the spaghettiest western ever;
[Words] 
One of the sad young literary men
Keith Gessen, co-editor of New York City’s n+1 magazine, has published his first novel. Dubbed part biography and part fiction, All The Sad Young Literary Men makes you take another look at our literary world, the ordinary failure and struggle behind those who find themselves in the unfortunate position of being writers.
[Words] 
Pities the fool that doesn't like the Atlantean myth
Cheese wrapper? Culinary wrestler? Grocery store chalkboard artist? That could only be one person: comic book artist Paul Maybury.
[Words] 
Bicycles, cycles and psychic icicles
Whether or not you are already a cycling enthusiast, scissoring through traffic, dodging death and car doors, Bicycle, the latest work from author of Patrick Fattaruso, will convert you into a believer. As the celebration not just of bikes but of the iconic worth of everyday objects, the book flaunts the author's careful and deliberate poetic prose while Fattaruso reminds his reader that beauty and inspiration are commonplace.
[Words] 
Aberration, absurdity, craziness, delirium, delusion, dementia …
Roget's Thesaurus was once a staple for essay writers and college freshmen, squeezing in between Webster's Dictionary and Strunk & White's Elements of Style. For most, shift+F7 has conveniently replaced it, but Roget's remains the godfather of the field.
