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    <![CDATA[The Underminer: or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake&#8212;and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend&#8230;Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service by capturing the elusive evils of an age-old archetype. To understand and resist <em>your </em>toxic friend, you need <em>The Underminer.</em><br/>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Hornito: My Lie Life]]>
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    <![CDATA[Softly lit, as if by a disco ball and a vintage Lava lamp, Mike Albo's rich and funny novel hinges on his protagonist and alter ego's visit home to suburban Springfield for Labor Day weekend, where he reminisces about his standard-issue American childhood and seeks a remedy for crabs, while obsessing about an unattainable trick of his named Eric, a dancer at Freon in Manhattan: &quot;He is a human candy bar impulse buy--moving effortlessly and beautifully up there with a king-size Snickers down his white cutoffs.&quot; There is no plot to speak of in <em>Hornito</em>, but a few events occur to strike off sparks of recollection. The driving force is Albo's unquenchable libido, which leads him into the sex clubs of New York and the dismal local gay hangouts of his parents' hometown, just as it led him into satin shorts and eyeliner during his warped 1980s adolescence. Among the best gay books of 2000, <em>Hornito</em> speaks to the geeky and emotionally hungry boy in even the coolest man. <em>--Regina Marler</em>  ]]>
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