- 9/13/12 /
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See Fred Armisen As Penny Marshall in an Ad for Her Book, My Mother Was Nuts
"They gotta go to the Amazon to get the book?"
Books
- 9/7/12 /
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Black Eyed Peas to Blame for Fifty Shades of Grey
It's like two rivers of awfulness formed an ocean of terrible.
- 9/6/12 /
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Read an Interactive Infinite Jest Map
Based on David Foster Wallace's novel.
- 9/6/12 /
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Learn the History of the Polaroid Camera ... Instantly!
Say cheese, also learn a thing or two.
- 9/5/12 /
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Watch PSA Meant to Help You Cope With George R.R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords
If you've finished George R.R. Martin's epic novel 'A Storm of Swords' from his A Song of Ice and Fire series.
- 9/5/12 /
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Hear Morgan Freeman Read Fifty Shades of Grey
Mo'Free (our nickname for him, you're welcome) gets kinky.
- 9/4/12 /
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Listen to a Lost Interview With Ray Bradbury
"The then-89-year-old Bradbury spent a little over an hour ruminating on life, love, space exploration, and even libraries, with the verve and wit of somebody a fraction of his age."
- 9/1/12 /
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Fifty Shades of Grey Husband Talks About Twilight, Ellipses, and His Own Book
It's a crime novel called Crusher.
- 8/23/12 /
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Haruki Murakami Favorite for Nobel Prize
With ten-to-one odds.
- 8/23/12 /
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Edelstein, Seitz, Abebe, and Schulz on Their Fall Culture Picks
Our movie, TV, music, and book critics each choose five.
- 8/22/12 /
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Junot Diaz Loves Short Stories, Even If You Don’t
"Writing short stories in a culture like ours is like giving birth to girls in a Dominican conservative family in the fifties.”
- 8/19/12 /
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Read an Excerpt From Michael Chabon’s New Novel, Telegraph Avenue
His next work has record store owners, midwives, Quentin Tarantino, gentrification, and an Obama cameo.
- 8/14/12 /
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Summer’s Almost Over, So Read One of These Twelve Books Already
You've got a little less than three weeks left until Labor Day. So pick up a book already.
- 8/13/12 /
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Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue Will Be One Super-Complicated E-Book
Maps, music, and illustrations of "air fresheners," whatever that means.
- 8/12/12 /
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Despite His Trademark Pessimism, David Rakoff Was Hopeful and Resilient
Remembering the essayist and "This American Life" contributor, who died this week at 47.
- 8/10/12 /
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Essayist David Rakoff Dead at 47
Sad news.
- 8/9/12 /
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$4 Million Seems Like a Lot for a Billy Crystal Book
About aging.
- 8/8/12 /
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Joan Rivers Handcuffed Herself to a Costco Shopping Cart
In protest.
- 8/5/12 /
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Watch Supernatural Duo Act out Fifty Shades of Grey
A selection from page 369.
- 8/1/12 /
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Read an Infographic About The Hobbit Revenue
Fantasy comes at a price.