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Year: 2004

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Orson Scott Card and the limits of tolerance

Posted on April 19, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

I don’t mean to come off as a right wing crank but this statement baffles me: Orson is a powerful and accomplished writer who deeply believes everything h...

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Quote of the Day: Rick Moody on Hardy

Posted on April 19, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

The weather here has simply been too nice to motivate me to post much. On top of that I had to have the starter replaced in our car and we have been cajoling a ...

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This just in: Tarantino no Shakespeare

Posted on April 16, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

David Edelstein had this to say in a review of Kill Bill, Vol. 2 and the Punisher: And neither, needless to say, is a patch on the greatest of our revenge drama...

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Truth, you can't handle the truth

Posted on April 14, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

I am still mulling over a longer more involved discussion of the issues touched on in the rant below on high and low culture. Mark at the Elegant Variation touc...

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Books and literature

Posted on April 13, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

I am not sure how this connects to the debate mentioned below but it seem germane. The New Republic is starting a series called “Pulps.” The first i...

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Everybody's Doing It

Posted on April 13, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

This seems to be popping up everywhere, so here is my version: “People at fairs change like the leaves of trees; and I daresay you are the only one here t...

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