Friday, January 27, 2012

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English as a Second Language: A Salute to the Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser

SALUTE

Tim Anderson celebrates the nonsensical splendor of one of the most incredible voices in pop.

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Review of Night Swim, by Jessica Keener

FICTION REVIEWS

A subtle, frank, intense portrait of grief, growth, and a family’s unravelling.

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Fun with Misery

HUMOR

Andrea Janes embraces the cold, dark heart of winter.

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Worst. À La Mode. Ever.

FOOD

Alan Brouilette thinks that if restaurant reviewers can’t say anything nice, they shouldn’t say anything.

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Picasso in Milwaukee

POEM

“If there’s language / anymore it’s a strange / calligraphy of bare / trees.”

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Review of NowTrends, by Karl Taro Greenfeld

FICTION REVIEWS

Spanning the globe, Greenfeld’s stories touch universal feelings while creating unique moments of epiphany and loss.

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Shorting the Market: An Interview with Bruce Machart

FICTION INTERVIEWS

Steve Almond and Bruce Machart discuss the fate of short story collections and the human brain in the age of the Internet.

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The Five Question Sex Interview: Men Undressed Edition: Steve Almond

FICTION INTERVIEWS

Gina Frangello dishes the dirty with Men Undressed: Women Writers on the Male Sexual Experience Foreword writer, Steve Almond.

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BREAKING DOWN THE BREAKDOWN  
 
Please take a look at these features from the past week:  
 
NONFICTION: Jamal Joseph fights the power.  
 
FICTION: Thrity Umrigar's favorite Beatle is Paul.  
 
MUSIC: Bassist Glenn Hughes gives us the "low"-down.  
 
ARTS & CULTURE: Larry Smith's magic moment.  
 
POETRY: John Foy clears house.  
 
The photo is from this week's Phone Pics.
 
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TNB TV
Please enjoy the trailer for Cherry, the upcoming film from Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries and founder of The Rumpus. The film tells the story of Angelina, an 18-year-old girl from a troubled home who winds up becoming a sex worker in San Francisco. It challenges assumptions about porn, sexuality, and success, and confronts the difficult question of where you need to be in order to find yourself. Starring James Franco, Ashley Hinshaw, Heather Graham, and Lili Taylor. Screenplay by Stephen Elliott and Lorelei Lee, a porn performer who is also a writer and lecturer at New York University.

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The Point and How We Missed It

TRAVEL

Tyler McMahon remembers both the peaks and the troughs of Puerto La Libertad, a surf town in El Salvador.

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Choosing Not to Know: A Review of In Defense of Monsters

NONFICTION REVIEWS

In a culture of certainty, B.J. Hollars proposes we should choose not to know.

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On ‘Helping Daniel Cooper Become A Muumuu Minimalist’

LETTERS

Advice for Daniel Cooper on life and literature.

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What is “Bad” Writing?

WRITING

In an addendum to the Language Wars, Iredell considers the rhetorical purposes of Academic English and legalese.

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Excerpt from The World We Found

NOVEL

An excerpt from Umrigar’s third novel, now available from Harper.

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Excerpt from Panther Baby

MEMOIR

As a fifteen-year-old Black Panther, Joseph is tested on his M16 skills—and makes it out alive for his 8 p.m. curfew.

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Condolences

POEM

John Foy strips the niceties from his word to the bereaved.

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Dispatches from the Wasteland, Part Eight

MEMOIR

Groh recounts Bravo Company’s rotation at Fort Polk prior to their deployment to Iraq.

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Ondes Martenot

POEM

Walter Ancarrow conducts those Outer Twilight Limits strains through the spaces in cheese.

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The Man with Many Names: An Interview with Mike Bushnell

POETRY INTERVIEWS

The author of Traumahawk on poetics, Internet literature, baseball, and mistakes.

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All Quiet on the Western Front: Media Reacts to SOPA Debate with Resounding Silence

NEWS & POLITICS

One of the most historic media and copyright bills in American history is currently being debated in Congress. Why is nobody on television talking about it?

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Kiss

POEM

Anna Reeser splashes her canvas with a savage intimacy.

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Pat Sajak Explains the Many Metaphors of a Giant Spinning Wheel

ORIGINAL FICTION

Michael Czyzniejewski unveils his debut story on TNB fiction, which is also a special sneak peek at his forthcoming book Chicago Stories.

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We Are: An Interview with David First

INTERVIEW

The avant garde composer discusses his influence on Thurston Moore, his band The Notekillers, and the protest song he wrote and recorded to support Occupy Wall Street.

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People Notice

HUMOR

Summer Block likes to believe that no one notices her. Unfortunately this isn’t always true.

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Princess Leia: Neither Green Girl nor Marie Calloway, and Praise Be

MOVIES

A really long and late response to D. R. Haney’s “When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth”

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