Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Category Archives: Popular Culture
The Time I (Almost) Defined a Generation
In which James Greer, then a music writer at SPIN, moves in mysterious ways. Continue reading
Posted in Music, Popular Culture
Tagged Bob Gucchione Jr., Generation X, Jane's Addiction, Lollapalooza, Nevermind, Nirvana, Perry Ferrell, Slacker, spin, u2
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Interview With a Vampire Novelist
Wherein Lawrence Benner pulls the graveyard shift in a hotel filled with the most terrifying kind of guest–a novelist. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Gloom, hotel, liar, minimum wage, night shift, Twilight, vampire
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Can Dungeons & Dragons Help You Write Your Novel?
Some people consider D&D to be the pursuit of anti-social high schoolers and thirty-year-old virgins. Are they correct? This author argues that D&D didn’t only help him write his first novel. It gave him a methodology. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Alignment, Antihero, books, Character, Creative Writing, Dungeons & Dragons, Ethics, MFA, Morality, novels, Ursula K. LeGuin
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Point/Counterpoint: Sean Beaudoin v. Garth Stein
Take a front row seat for this exciting, no-holds-barred game of style and wit, in which eight topics of the day are parsed, thrust, and parried as you listen to the intellectual steel clang! Continue reading
Posted in Point/Counterpoint, Popular Culture
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12.21.12: The Pros and Cons of the End of Days
If the world really did come to a grinding halt on December 21, like the Mayans supposedly predicted, it wouldn’t be ALL bad. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged apocalypse, complete and total bullshit, End of Days, Mayans, parties, prophesy, religions
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Apocalypse, Inc.: An American Production
There are two things America does well: deep-fried Twinkies and the Apocalypse. Samuel Sattin explains why the two might not be entirely unrelated. Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Popular Culture
Tagged Akira, American culture, apocalypse, Armageddon, Atlantic, Batman, Europe, Evangelion, films in which shit gets blown up, immigration, Iron Man, James Bond, The Walking Dead, Twinkies, USA, vampires, zombies
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