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Bookslut | Avengers: Rage of Ultron by Rick Remender, Jerome Opeña, Pepe Larraz, and Mark Morales

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Avengers: Rage of Ultron by Rick Remender, Jerome Opeña, Pepe Larraz, and Mark Morales. Marvel Comics has a problem. Not the moving pictures arm of the company, Marvel Studios. They're doing just fine, having recently churned out a critically acclaimed, fan-pleasing Netflix series about yet another character from their enormous stable, and will presumably be finer when the. Sequel opens to likely enormous numbers this month. There are a number of theories as to what the gap is - why people who happily ac...

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Bookslut | Bitchfest

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If you’re the kind of person who can’t ignore the endless stream of sexism in pop culture, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by it. And depending on who you hang out with, an inability to keep your mouth shut during a preview for. Why avoid a label because it makes people uncomfortable? Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. The road to feminist consciousness is for many women paved with multiple instances of other people whining, ‘Can’t you take a joke? Founders and edito...

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Bookslut | This House of Grief by Helen Garner

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This House of Grief by Helen Garner. I've never been on a jury, said my friend. Have you? No Never been called. But I've heard stories and read books. And I've seen. About a hundred times. This House of Grief. What if I were one of those tired, frightened jurors, sequestered by an oath from the comfort of work and family, browbeaten by oratory, craving the release of laughter or tears? Calm down. I was not on the jury. I had made no vows. I was only an observer. She is self-consciously working in the tra...

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Bookslut | Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey

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Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey. Nobody Is Ever Missing. As the voyage is made across New Zealand, readers mostly follow Elyria's mind as it moves into similar flashbacks. They do not get to know well the people she encountered, in keeping with the perspective of someone wanting silence. She relates to her fellow travelers through a self-aware scrim that voices their words through the lens of her experience:. One talks shit to. One and even if someone. Nobody Is Ever Missing.

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Bookslut | Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link

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Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link. I love a good ghost story. One of my favorites has long been The Specialist's Hat from Kelly Link's debut story collection,. I once asked a classroom full of undergraduates. The suggestion of a ghost, the dead poet, the mysterious arrival of the babysitter, the noises in the attic. What makes it. Than a ghost story? Since the publication of. All this winking aside,. Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. And if you can put a haunted house back ...

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Bookslut | An Interview with Tom Cain

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An Interview with Tom Cain. I’ll give it to you straight. I didn’t trust Tom Cain. Any further than I could throw him. Tasked to review a debut thriller called. Hell, even the author of. Wasn’t real, although it’s virtually impossible to stay hidden in the age of Google. Sarah Weinman. And other determined sleuths quickly made a liaison between anonymous death-dealer Cain and a smart and worldly British journalist on the eve of publishing his first novel. So I put my feet up, cracked the spine of. Origin...

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Bookslut | An Interview with Miranda July

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An Interview with Miranda July. Miranda July started her artistic endeavors doing performance pieces at 924 Gilman St., the well-known all ages punk club in Berkeley that kicked off other major talents including Green Day, Rancid, Mr. T. Experience and the whole East Bay punk scene. She grew up in Berkeley, spent time in the Pacific Northwest, and now lives in Los Angeles. Me and You and Everyone We Know. A film she wrote, directed and starred in. July’s boyfriend is Mike Mills, who directed. She’s...

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Bookslut | Cookbookslut

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Those I have chosen to own hang about in my kitchen like jealous ex-lovers, speckled with flour, crinkled by spilt bourbon, scented with fragments of burnt garlic and olive oil scarred by the ravages of our past dalliances.". Head vs. Heart. In Short Measures: Three Novellas by Michael Ruhlman. A Book of Days. A Warm Kitchen After the Snow. Well Fed, Flat Broke. Eager for the Kitchen: Prune and Twelve Recipes. Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal. Seventeen Tablespoons of Butter. Trattoria Cook...

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Bookslut | Reviews index

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One Hundred Twenty-One Days by Michèle Audin, translated by Christiana Hills. He Wants by Alison Moore. Heresy and Provocation by Tero Nauha. Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey. Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París, translated by Christina MacSweeney. Adios, Cowboy by Olja Savičević, translated by Celia Hawkesworth. The Miner by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Jay Rubin. The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories by Carlos Velázquez, translated by Achy Obejas. The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson.

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Bookslut | Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball

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Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball. Jesse Ball's latest novel,. Creates and maintains an atmosphere of mystery and melancholy like no other. It begins with an epigraph: The following work of fiction is partially based on fact. By the work's end, however, even this statement is suspect. Is built around multiple interlocking secrets. Again, transcript of session recording, possibly altered or shoddily made. Original recording not heard.].