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Fractured fairy-tales

How George Saunders, Hans Christian Andersen, and a trip to Fairyland can keep you sane
Somehow, somewhere, we seem to have forgotten the meaning of the fairy tale.
By JAMES PARKER  |  January 23, 2008
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Difficult people

Tom Perrotta keeps his characters company through the bumps and bumbles of American life
As a reader of fiction, at this point in life I’m sort of in my late Imperial phase — a sensationalist, easily distracted, with a vulgar appetite for brilliance.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 03, 2007
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''Great Journeys''

From Marco Polo to Twain and Shackleton, with a bit of Pico Iyer
Now that the jungle is withdrawing, and the wilderness is tenanted, the brief of the travel writer has altered somewhat.
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 24, 2007
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Real housewives and blood diamonds

Another trip to Orange County, and bling’d in Sierra Leone
Literature, that slow cousin to Life, has in its prolonged non-engagement with reality TV been even denser and more dreamily backward than usual.
By JAMES PARKER  |  February 27, 2007
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Mass marketing

George Saunders’s tragic-comic consumers
Everyone who reads him knows that George Saunders is one of the funniest writers at work today. What’s less remarked on is his capacity to wrench pathos from comedy.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  May 02, 2006
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Good reads

From Roth to Hall, and non-fiction, too
According to the Greeks, spring is the season of rebirth, when Persephone was released from Hades and mom Demeter celebrated with flowers.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  March 09, 2006

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