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May 21, 2015

Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem

A longtime fan sits down with Gornick to discuss her much-anticipated new memoir, "The Odd Woman and the City"






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Published on May 21, 2015 16:10

Secrets of Osama bin Laden’s library: The mystic, searching book now being misinterpreted as a conspiracy text

Manly P. Hall's book is in danger of joining "Helter Skelter" and "Catcher in the Rye." It doesn't deserve to






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Published on May 21, 2015 16:10

Up all night in Mexico City: “Güeros,” a gorgeous, ecstatic slacker odyssey, is one of the best movies of the year

Tragic, romantic and hilarious, this late '90s Mexican rebel odyssey is 2015's foreign-language breakthrough






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Published on May 21, 2015 16:10

“Would you do this to a man?”: Melissa McCarthy destroys sexist reporter who called her “hideous”

McCarthy recently had the chance to come face-to-face with the reporter. It was a run-in he'll likely never forget






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Published on May 21, 2015 15:08

Matthew Weiner, Jeb Bush and our “cynical” little doubts: From Big Oil to classic Coke, suddenly it’s “arrogant” to question what we’re being sold

I'd like to buy the world a Coke, if it will keep them from asking inconvenient questions about climate change!






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Published on May 21, 2015 14:37

AMERICA SURVIVES with Joanna Rothkopf pt. 3: How to survive a bear attack

Americans love woods camping and bears live in the woods... Seems to me like a recipe for disaster






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Published on May 21, 2015 13:04

Good news! Amy Poehler believes in you: “I have so much faith in the generation that is coming up”

She talked to Vanity Fair about her new Pixar film "Inside Out"






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Published on May 21, 2015 12:33

Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders: The Podcast

Scenes from the April Cabinet of Wonders: Podcast 1, Act 1






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Published on May 21, 2015 12:18

May 17, 2015

Courtney didn’t kill Kurt: The twisted misogyny behind suicide conspiracy theories

The evil woman seduced and killed our fragile hero: That hate fuels Cobain/Elliott Smith rumors. It's all wrong






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Published on May 17, 2015 12:31