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Southern Comfort: The slow but gratifying death of the Silver Jews
(I wrote this for the now-defunct Gadfly magazine in 2001.) Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster Her sister never left and look what it cost her We’re gonna live in Nashville and I’ll make a...
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James Frey: Hype and Hypodermy
(I wrote this piece for the New York Press in April 2003.) James Frey “wants to be the greatest literary writer of his generation.” Which is commendable. But the press’ careless comparison of...
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Personal Library
Not long ago, I popped into a Salvation Army store in suburban Maryland to check out the used-book section. I’d unearthed plenty of gems in similar places, so it wasn’t surprising that the visit proved...
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