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Hank Stuever

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Hank Stuever was born in 1968 in Oklahoma City and grew up there, and left, and got into journalism. He has worked for newspapers in Albuquerque and Austin and, since 1999, has covered pop culture for The Washington Post's Style section. He is currently the paper's TV critic. OFF RAMP, a collection of his feature stories and essays, was published in 2004. His 2009 book, TINSEL, follows three suburban families in Frisco, Texas, through three Christmases. He lives in Washington, DC.


I am the worst blogger in the world, I know.


But I return with some news and an exciting event to pimp, er, promote: I’ll be moderating a discussion with original MTV veejays Nina Blackwood and Mark Goodman at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on Saturday, May 18, at 2:15 p.m. Nina and Mark are promoting their new memoir (co-written with Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn), VJ: The Unplugged Adventures o...

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Average rating: 3.71 · 395 ratings · 94 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
Tinsel: A Search for Americ...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
Off Ramp: Adventures and He...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions

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read in March, 2013
I was sent a bound galley of this novel back in March and DEVOURED it; have been waiting closer to release date (next month) so that I can open my can of high praise. Curtis Sittenfeld has done it again, but she has also pushed her work in a differen...more
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In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
In Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin
read in February, 1990
One of the best courses I took in college was Ray Schroth's class called Travel Writing, which was a journalism class focused on travel literature. So many great books were assigned that semester, in addition to a whole lot of writing assignments. Th...more
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Skipping Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage
Skipping Towards Gomorrah
by Dan Savage (Goodreads Author)
read in January, 2002
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The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
Another from Ray Schroth's syllabus in the Travel Writing class way back in the spring semester of 1990. And another discovery for me -- I wound up reading quite a bit more Theroux.
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Flagrant Conduct by Dale Carpenter
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Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
Oscar Wilde
by Richard Ellmann
read in October, 1989
Took a Victorian Culture course (history) in college my senior year and read this cover to cover while working on a term paper about Wilde's sodomy trial. I guess everyone goes through their Oscar Wilde phase. Mine just had lots of cassette tapes by...more
Hank Stuever rated a book 3 of 5 stars
The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Diaries
by Andy Warhol
read in December, 1989
Not only do I still have it, inside the front cover I still have the torn-out pages from the issue of Spy magazine that painstakingly indexed it. Listen, if you think you're nostalgic for the '80s, you better walk the walk and read (or re-read) this...more
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