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The Day the Earth Moved

NEWS & POLITICS

Zara Potts reports on the massive earthquake that recently struck her hometown of Christchurch and is heartsick over the destruction.

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An Excerpt from Drain

NOVEL

It’s the year 2039, and Lake Michigan is mysteriously emptied of water. An excerpt from Schneiderman’s shocking and transgressive new novel.

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Excerpt from Down and Derby

MEMOIR

Read this or get your teeth knocked out.

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The OraL Tradition

POEM

Mike the Poet salutes the wandering bard through the nations and ages.

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Knives Out

NEWS & POLITICS

Simon Smithson delights in the fact that this week at least one political party will be just as poled as the electorate.

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Book’s Not Dead

BOOKS & PUBLISHING

Aaron Talwar explains that there is no such thing as the death of any novel.

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Cadaver Blues: Chapter 47

MOVIES

Chapter 47 of Cadaver Blues, J.E. Fishman’s genre-busting serial mystery, a TNB exclusive.

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How are you?

LETTERS

Sometimes, when people ask you how you’re doing, they actually mean it. But then, what do you say?

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MATT BALDWIN.  Master of Fine Arts...and of martial arts.  Has demonstrated both skill sets at TNB, where we have read about him taking on sharks, bears, knife-wielding French Quarter muggers...but not, unfortunately, gun-toting drug dealers.


Pride of San Diego.  Recovering Sea World enthusiast.   Dime Storyteller.


Thirty-one-year old fascinated by creatures thirty-one million years old (and even older).


New Orleans resident on August 29, 2005, and because he worked at the hospital, stayed pat during and after Hurricane Katrina.


Possibly the illegitimate child of his abusive stepfather, but doesn't know for certain (or feel the need to).


Leg man.   Safe sex advocate (give it up!).


And yes, ladies, he's available!


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TNB TV 
The official book trailer for Emma Donoghue's Room, the September selection for the TNB Book Club. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It's where he was born and where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. At night, Ma puts him safely to sleep in the wardrobe, in case Old Nick comes. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it's the prison where Old Nick has kept her for seven years, since she was nineteen. Through ingenuity and determination, Ma has created a life for herself and her son, but she knows it's not enough for either of them. Jack's curiosity is building alongside Ma's desperation -- and Room can't contain either of them for much longer...

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Invincible Summer

APPRECIATION

A photo essay of a small town summer parade.

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The Dumbening (or I, Wiitard)

RANTS

In which Chris Kennett makes the horrifying discovery that he is just another everyday idiot.

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The Heartbreak of Fish Lice

FLASH NONFICTION

Irene Zion learns why her fish are acting strangely and then dying.

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An Adequate Idea

ESSAY

A meditation on faith, curiosity and the Infinity of Ideas.

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One Man’s Hubris Is Another Man’s Flood

HUMOR

Tina Traster witnesses the demolition of two old shacks in her bucolic neighborhood and wonders: what next?

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Do Boob Jobs Sell Books?

RANTS

What is a platform, and does it include breast augmentation?

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The Crash

TRAVEL

An explosion in the sky causes David Wills’s plane to make an emergency landing.

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When Masturbation’s Lost Its Fun….

HUMOR

Andrew Nonadetti remembers the day he coined the phrase “Post-Traumatic Wanking Disorder”.

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Dr. Sbaitso & Me

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Justin Benton gets counseled by Dr. Sbaitso, artificial intelligence, MS-DOS psychologist, friend.

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Cobain is to Rose as Van Gogh is to Rockwell-Part III-Nevermind

MUSIC

Art Edwards explores Nevermind, barrel-hopping, and the romance of our anger.

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Alex

ESSAY

Lauren Hoffman worries about news stories about unidentified male victims.

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Death With Dignity

HUMOR

The author ponders death and the afterlife after nobly choking on a gummy bear.

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Love & Squalor: Hearing Voices in New England

FICTION REVIEWS

The River Gods is a supernatural version of NPR’s StoryCorps, a mash-up of historical fiction and on-air confessional—it’s a wonder the book isn’t outfitted with an antenna.

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Everything Dies: a review of Tom McCarthy’s novel C

FICTION REVIEWS

Death is in the epigraph, and secret is the word…

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Couscous

MEMOIR

M.J. Fievre lies. Out of love.

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Smells Like Football Spirit

SPORTS

With the 2010-11 NFL season at hand Reno Romero calls it the way he smells it.

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