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Friday Column

Friday Column

The Friday Column is on vacation this week. In the meantime, print out some of these articles for weekend reading.

New fiction by Jonathan Lethem in The New Yorker.

Scott McLemee on the recently deceased Jean Baudrillard.

The Virginia Quarterly review on literary quarterlies.

Andrew Delbanco on the shrinking number of poor people in America’s institutes of higher education.

William Alexander on Scott McCloud’s influence on comics.

M.S. Smith on his 20 favorite films.

Lenora Todaro of Bookforum on Tom McCarthy’s new novel Remainder.

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March 16th, 2007 | Category: Friday Column

1 comment to Friday Column

  • William Patrick Wend
    March 16th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    Weekend Reading

    BookSlut interviewed science fiction author Justine Larbalestier last month.
    Voyages Of Imagination is a cool site that tracks new Star Trek books. I really enjoyed the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels (and honestly the Voyager ones weren…

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