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Historians Misbehaving Wonderfully -
December 15, 2005
UCI prof Jon Wiener examines his own kind -
Tempered Rage against the Machine -
December 1, 2005
George Saunders’ Phil is a wickedly funny parable -
the Redeemer Speaks -
December 1, 2005
Writer Luis Rodriguez has a way of... -
Bat Boy Lives! -
November 24, 2005
Sensational stories of the bizarrefor Christmas
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Lame Fulminations -
November 17, 2005
Vonneguts latest is lightweight, gaseous stuff -
Grief Works -
November 10, 2005
Joan Didions Magical memoir on death -
The Risk Taker -
October 6, 2005
Aimee Bender: A willful creature -
This Is to Tell You About the Barn Dance -
September 22, 2005
Also, about The Book of Shrigley -
The Mirror Crackd -
September 22, 2005
Lunar Park fails to reflect a believable Bret Easton Ellis story -
Waxing Roth -
August 25, 2005
The Library of America takes a shine to the author of Portnoys Complaint -
Lay, Lady, Lay -
August 18, 2005
This Straight Girl feels for you -
'We'll Start a Car Club . . .' -
August 4, 2005
Rin Tanaka's My Freedamn! 3 spotlights vintage car-club jackets, Powell Peralta tees -
The Red-Light District of Language -
August 4, 2005
Maledicta 13 and the importance of telling World Trade Center jokes -
A Drawn-out, Unbelievable Hours -
July 28, 2005
Michael Cunninghams Specimen Days is uneven, at times far-fetched -
On the Way Down -
July 21, 2005
Hornbys latest novel finds him straining for significance - The Night Larry Kramer Slapped Me - July 14, 2005
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Saul Bellow: An Appreciation -
April 14, 2005
Nobel Prize winner was author of Henderson the Rain King, other stuff -
Behind the Blue Door -
March 24, 2005
Legs McNeil gatecrashes the other Hollywood -
The Religious and the Secular Could Be Friends -
March 10, 2005
If they read Marilynne Robinsons Gilead -
Get Sick, Get Well. Hang Around an Inkwell -
February 17, 2005
Dylans Volume 1 saves the best for Volume 2
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Men Are From Long Beach, Women Are From Orange County -
February 3, 2005
Two new books dissect the local dating scene -
Making the Breast of a Bad Situation -
February 3, 2005
Phillips Roths ode to mammaries still titillates -
Are You Trying to Seduce Me, Ms. Sontag and Ms. Kael? -
January 27, 2005
How two women authors molded two male writers they never knew
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