- 4/4/08 /
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Kimya Dawson Fails to Take the Money and Run
Plus: Finally, someone understands what "quantum of solace" means!
Books
- 4/3/08 /
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Meryl Streep Rules and Graydon Carter Jabs ‘Vanity Fair’ at Poetry Bash
"We don't do contemporary poets at the Academy of American Poets," said Streep. "Because if you say one name, then somebody else has their nose out of joint. "
- 4/2/08 /
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Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘Wizzywig’
How does a boy with a knack for taking things apart become a young man feared and admired as one of the world's most dangerous hackers?
- 4/2/08 /
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‘Blood Cell’ Trailer: Lonelygirl15 Returns!
YouTube's biggest star (not Tay Zonday) makes a welcome return to flash video in this new Internet show, which actually doesn't look half bad.
- 4/2/08 /
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Daniel Waters Exactly As Bitter As We’d Expect the Writer of ‘Heathers’ Would Be
What's he bitterest about? Orson Welles? His own mismanaged career? His successful brother?
- 4/2/08 /
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Music Business Finally Hires a Nerd!
EMI just hired Google's CIO! We can't believe it!
- 4/1/08 /
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Artist Lisa Dahl Gets the Housing-Market Blues
Real-estate prices are through the roof, so Lisa Dahl has painted her own little blue house on a very green prairie, using acrylic paint on a ripped page from a nameless real-estate magazine.
- 3/31/08 /
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Titlepage.tv Fails to Make Dan Menaker the Letterman of Books
Dan Menaker's Internet talk show still faces some hurdles in its third episode. Can books on TV ever be cool?
- 3/28/08 /
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‘Sweet Valley High’ Updates Bury the Wakefield Twins in Cavalli
Liz & Jess were never meant to be contemporary, never mind middle-class West Coast Gossip Girls.
- 3/26/08 /
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Do Two Recent Novels About China Obscure the Looming Robot Threat? Yes
Are Alex Berenson and Colin Harrison actually robots obscuring the coming robot apocalypse? The answer to this question is also yes.
- 3/26/08 /
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David Hajdu on the Great Comics Scare
"I think there’s still a very deep-rooted fear that our kids are going to turn against us like Dobermans."
- 3/26/08 /
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Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘The Rabbi's Cat 2’
A journey across Africa, and a surprise meeting in the Congo with Tintin.
- 3/24/08 /
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‘Flight Explorer’ Gathers Venerable Kid-Friendly Comics
Kazu Kibuishi's beloved anthology of hot new comics artists, Flight, has always carried a whiff of kiddie adventure story.
- 3/21/08 /
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PEN American Center's World Voices Fest Kicks Off With Tipsy, Seafaring Literati
PEN American Center's galas are known to be glamorous affairs. Even so, someone invited Vulture!
- 3/19/08 /
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‘Pravda’ Duly Salvaged From Man Booker Long List
- 3/19/08 /
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Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘Paul Goes Fishing’
- 3/19/08 /
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Why Playing Scott Pilgrim Might Save Michael Cera's Career
- 3/18/08 /
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Jeffrey Sachs Has Actual Solutions For Poverty, Pollution
- 3/17/08 /
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‘Superclass’ Unveils the 6,000 Who Really Run Things
- 3/17/08 /
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