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The Running of the Bulls
... and so knew nothing of American sports during the Bulls’ 1990s championship runs. But I had seen the highlights, the insulting flash of his pink tongue, and the way gravity bent around his body...
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Back with a Vengeance
... her tongue simply make the coiffing go by quicker? Sometimes Lola brings her along to the espiritista, a medium who connects the living with the dead, in a pink house filled with “draped velvets...
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Investigate Yourself, Dog!
... include: “To Sam Pink, for the early encouragement, and for lighting the way.” Pink is the author not just of several books but also of a semi-viral post from last summer titled “FUCK, BOY!” in which...
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One Pill Makes You Smaller
... quite ended. It atrophied. Examples of the Gen X Midlife-Crisis Novel include Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer, Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss, Hark by Sam Lipsyte, A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet...
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Deeper into Cocaine
... Howard Koch Jr., assistant director on Chinatown and the son of the former head of production at Paramount Pictures, had always thought of cocaine as “elite,” according to Sam Wasson in The Big...
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The Ersatz Life, Examined
... The humble peasants are really actors imitating what they think hard labor looks like, based on a mix of children’s books about John Henry, Sam Cooke lyrics, and online porn. The more unreal the...
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Rontel by Sam Pink
... Rontel by Sam Pink ...
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Feb 15, 2013 @ 12:18:00 am
..._000_speaking_feee.html> having invited the former New Yorker writer to speak at its conference. On Valentine’s Day, Electric Literature published its first novel, Sam Pink’s Rontel, which is among other...
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Out Backward by Ross Raisin
... intimate novel. Raisin’s narrator is Sam Marsdyke, a lonely young man who has recently been expelled from school and has little choice but to work alongside his taciturn father on their sheep farm in...
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Yen for Books
... leaves, brown dots, at her feet. Somewhat like a pastel El Greco (bear with me), the cover had patches of vivid color: orange hair, pink dress, red and yellow windows. But unlike in El Greco, the mood...
