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  • Bill Simmons, Court Jester

    The ESPN.com columnist loves Jordan and Bird, not so fond of  'fake cans'

    By Rob Harvilla

    There's only one man alive who could have written a tolerable 700-page book about the NBA that includes a vignette about which current superstar...

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  • Dressing Up RFK with Moon River and Me's Andy Williams

    The crooner pens the memoir you sorta maybe were waiting for

    By Roy Edroso

    If you remember Andy Williams at all, you remember "Moon River," the easy smile, the colorful sweaters. He was among the last clean-cut crooners...

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  • Lydia Davis Is Not Indignant

    Prolific, though. FSG puts out a big, fat book of the noted writer's stories.

    By Zach Baron

    What to do with all the empty white space that drifts over the 733 pages and nearly 200 fictions of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis? Make...

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  • Lit Seen: A Report From the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival

    Gaitskill, Auster, Gessen—and Lupe Fiasco.

    By Zach Baron

    It's helpful to remember—as Rolling Stone's David Lipsky did Sunday at the Brooklyn Book Festival—that the panel which began the day,...

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  • Tao Lin's Five-Finger Discount

    A comic novella captures the curious ennui of the Gchat age

    By Ben Beitler

    "Tao Lin is a revolutionary!" declared The Stranger. OK. Great. The quotation, in all caps, adorns the front cover of my advance copy of...

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