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Have a nice future

Blake Butler rains gravel and glass
Blake Butler rains gravel and glass
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 09, 2009
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A girl's guide to Boston boys

Stop looking for love in all the wrong places
Autumn opens itself wide with possibility. And Boston begins to crackle with fresh energy (you'll feel it), as the city spreads its arms to thousands of new humans. New brains and bodies abuzz with all sorts of anticipation. The feeling of fall: potential .
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 04, 2009
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Ghost writer

The haunted world of Kelly Link
Salted throughout Kelly Link’s stories, you’ll find Buffy , Bust , Doc Martens, IM-ing, Target, Google, Vicks VapoRub, a T-shirt that reads I’M SO GOTH I SHIT TINY VAMPIRES.  
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  October 02, 2008
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Literary import

Ploughshares lands a new editor
One of the first things Ladette Randolph tells me is that she’s a fifth-generation Nebraskan, that her great-great grandparents settled there, that the landscape there, particularly in the western part of the state, where her novel is set, is “like being in the middle of the ocean — that kind of erasure.”
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 24, 2008
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David Foster Wallace — 1962–2008

Overhead baggage
A story called “Forever Overhead” by David Foster Wallace appeared in the 1992 edition of Best American Short Stories .
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 26, 2008
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Hoot and challah

Silver Jews, Middle East Downstairs, September 5, 2008
Watching Berman on stage, you couldn’t be sure. Is he into it? Does he like this?
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 10, 2008
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Love us, don't leave us

Advice from sadder but wiser Bostonians
Let’s skip the sugarcoating. Boston can be a tricky place.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  August 21, 2009
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Out of this world

Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King
The worlds Rosenbaum creates feel less like a separate or “alternate” reality and more like a colorful, if complicated, extension of the one we know.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  August 26, 2008
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Parlor salon

Spreading the words in Salem
Spreading the words in Salem
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 16, 2008
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Exte: Hair Extensions

Creepy and bizarro hair-raising horror
The film rises above satire with chilling and deftly shot set pieces of hair strangling, flinging, and burying its victims.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 16, 2008
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My Father My Lord

Hushed, dun-colored, and beautifully shot
Volach overdoes the quoting from the Torah, but the intimacy of each shot and the quiet force from each character elevate the film to the level of parable.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 25, 2008
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A Jihad for Love

Potent subject matter overshadowed by special effects
Homosexuality is illegal and highly punishable in the Muslim world (being stoned to death is a possibility); the faces of many of Sharma’s subjects are blurred to conceal their identity.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 25, 2008
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Confessions of an editor

DeWitt Henry's candid new collection of essays meditates on manhood
There’s a quiet courage in these essays, and a revelatory sense of the continuing challenge of pressing on.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 20, 2008
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Bigger, Stronger, Faster*

Steroids and a culture of competition
The film, both informative and poignant, is peopled with a cross-section of users, experts, politicians, pro athletes, and gym rats with melon-sized biceps.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 04, 2008
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Refusenik

Potent but trudging
As one activist says, “It’s the naïveté of young people that can change history.”
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 28, 2008
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Obama bicycle cycle

Mat Honan will start your new online fad
In case you haven’t already heard, Barack Obama is your new bicycle.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 27, 2008
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Doodle bugs

Brushes with greatness
Every teen mag worth its weight in heartthrobs can tell you what your notebook doodlings reveal about your personality.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 02, 2008
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Prison professor

A literary prize that really helps
There are lots of small presses. Dzanc Books, based near Detroit, is one of them, but it’s not like the rest.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  December 05, 2007
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Deep thinking

Peter Thomson’s cleansing journey
Lake Baikal fills a fracture in the surface of Siberia that’s 25 million years old, 395 miles long, and a mile deep.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  November 19, 2007
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Touched by grace

Andre Dubus’s unending gifts
This, around November, when New England’s bones start to show — and I realized my heart was beating faster. The story had quickened my pulse.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  October 01, 2007
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Pore and pour

The reader’s guide to intoxicating literature
This is for the misanthropes and wallflowers.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  August 31, 2007
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Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap Box

Sort of like a soap opera
Once the suds of choice for dirty hippies, Dr. Bronner’s is now a staple of the Whole Foods set, and Sara Lamm’s documentary looks at Dr. B's “All One God Faith” mission.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 24, 2007
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Cold comforts

Miranda July’s performance pieces
In photographs, indie wünderwaif Miranda July stares back at us with big, wet blue eyes, curls dangling about her face, lips glistening and parted just so.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 10, 2007
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Against interpretation

Hallelujah the Hills get litr’y with it
To file Hallelujah the Hills under “literary rock” would be, according to frontman Ryan Walsh, an insult to literature and an insult to rock. Hallelujah the Hills, "Wave Backwards to Massachusetts" (mp3)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 12, 2007
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Hermes’s boner

New film queers The Odyssey
The Odyssey is the epic that's launched a thousand adaptations.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 09, 2007
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Rising tides

Caspian’s oceans of vocal-less sound
The 14-year-old mosh-pitters at the front of the room ricochet off one another, goofing, self-conscious, as Caspian approach the climax of their first crescendo. Caspian, "ASA" (mp3)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  April 09, 2007
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Decivilization and its discontents

The editors of literary magazine n+1 talk about the theme of their new issue, and why the world needs their work
“Sign yourself up for the reinvigoration of civilization and, while you’re at it, n+1 .” The bar was set. Civilization was at stake.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  April 04, 2007
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Choose your own adventure

Pencils, books, and peg legs? A new writing center is coming to town, and it’s calling your inner child.  
This fall, Boston is slated to become the seventh chapter of the youth writing organization founded by Dave Eggers in 2002.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 15, 2007
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In Bods we trust

Kennedy’s new book explores the first F-to-M sex change
Issues of identity have captivated Somerville author Pagan Kennedy since her days as an Allstonite ’zine pioneer back in the mid ’80s.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 14, 2007
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The who behind What

Podcast: Dave Eggers, Samantha Power, and Valentino Achak Deng discuss What Is the What
Listen to a discussion with Dave Eggers, Samantha Power, and Valentino Achak Deng, recorded at Harvard's Memorial Hall on February 26, 2007
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 06, 2007

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