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From the monthly archives: October 2009

A Brief History of the Modern Zombie, or Why I Hate Zombie Lit

On October 31, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

The No-Ricky’s Answer to Your Halloween Costume Needs

On October 31, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Weekend Bites, The Frightening Edition: Keats Misdiagnosed?, the Penis as Literary Device, ScarJo to Rape Arthur Miller’s Work, Truths in Ghostbusters, and Why M&M’s Might As Well Be Crack

On October 31, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Jason’s Spooktube Music Video Picks

On October 30, 2009 By Jason Diamond

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Svengoolie For The People

On October 30, 2009 By Jason Diamond

By Jason Diamond

My Nana and Papa lived in a condominium complex called Winston Towers, located in the in the Rogers Park neighborhood, right near where you could say Chicago either begins or ends, as the city of Evanston and the North Shore is a few blocks away. The series of buildings is well-known among many who grew up in the surrounding suburbs as “Cabrini Greenberg” for its large number of middle aged and senior Jewish occupants. Looking back, it would be easy to say they look like just about any other set of buildings — in [...]
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Reviewed: Cinema Of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies By Dominque Mainon and James Ursini

On October 30, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Limelight Editions, 392 Pages
Reviewed by Matthew Caron

Lovers of fluffy romantic comedy will find little to like about Cinema Of Obsession, a meticulous survey of the movies’ many ventures to dark side of love and sex, but then I bet they don’t read many books anyway. The rest of us, however, are in for a treat. Dominique Mainon and James Ursini’s survey of obsession and fixation in cinema is as academically accomplished as it is fun and sexy.

Broken down into five sections, the final and most impressive of which dissects the underexposed subject [...]
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Bites: An Andy Warhol, Unstoppable Eggers, Paris Review, Stephen King Doing Vampires, Chuck Biscuits Ain’t Dead, Sufjan, and more.

On October 30, 2009 By Jason Diamond

A bunch of people at the New York Review of Books ask that question “What is an Andy Warhol?” I guess this self-portrait would count.

Lit.
You can’t stop another Dave Eggers-related film from being made. You just can’t “Hyperbolic? Perhaps, but the sentiment is genuine.” Chuck Palahniuk’s blog weighs in on the Paris Review Interviews. So does The Millions. Richard Rushfield wrote a book about going to Hampshire College, and likes Pere Ubu, Joy Division, and Dinosaur Jr. I know all of this because of his [...]
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Recipes for Literature: Viv Stamper’s Maple-Buttered Baked Apples With Candied Pecans

On October 29, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

By Cara Nicoletti

Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion is a sprawling epic chronicling the lives of a logging family in Wakonda, Oregon. Complete with deep-seated brotherly hatred, savage revenge plots, repressed silences and Oedipal lust, there is hardly a bleaker, more raw look into family dysfunction and hard-headed stubbornness. The only moments of relief from the stream of heartache and cold, beating rain come when the Stamper family is gathered around the table.

The Stamper men wake up in the morning to “piles of steaming pancakes.” To the logging mill they take paper sacs filled with [...]
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