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Reviewing the Review: February 21 2010

by Levi Asher on Sunday, February 21, 2010 01:40 pm
African-American, Fiction, Music, New York Times Book Review

Apparently the reputations of our acclaimed magazines have recently sunk to the depths of ignobility. William Vollmann, reviewing Ted Conover's The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today in the current New York Times Book Review, complains that Conover "occasionally seasons his prose with the flavor of a National Geographic article".

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The Wow Effect

by Levi Asher on Thursday, January 28, 2010 05:57 pm
African-American, Beat Generation, Being A Writer, Comedy, LitKicks, Sports, Summer Of Love, Technology, Visual Art

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Kindle Spotting

by Levi Asher on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:25 pm
African-American, British, Drama, Haiku, New York City, News, Publishing, Reading, Southern, Technology, Visual Art

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Reviewing the Review: May 3 2009

by Levi Asher on Saturday, May 2, 2009 08:47 pm
African-American, New York Times Book Review, Poetry, Sports
I almost had to skip another weekly Review review (did I mention I'm moving?), but I figure a short one will do. I hope to run more reports from PEN World Voices soon this weekend too.
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Gershwin and Heyward's Porgy and Bess

by Michael Norris on Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:09 pm
African-American, Drama, Jazz Age, Music

I went to see a new production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at the Lyric Opera in Chicago. I like to go to the opera, but I can only afford to sit in the cheap seats in the second balcony, up in the very stratosphere of the opera house.
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Reviewing the Review: November 30 2008

by Levi Asher on Sunday, November 30, 2008 02:25 pm
African-American, Economics, History, New York Times Book Review
I learned about "thick" and "thin" during the years I worked for Time Inc. When an unusually heavy issue of Time came off the presses, executives and others in the know would smile and augur good things for the company (and, by extension, for the American economy). A particularly slender magazine brought scorn, bowed heads and concern for our job security. However, the magazine contained the same amount of editorial content each week. The difference between a thick and thin issue was the amount of ads the sales team was able to sell that week.
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Bo Diddley, Lyricist

by Levi Asher on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 11:52 pm
African-American, Comedy, Music, Tributes
"I walk 47 miles of barbed wire"
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Reviewing the Review: February 24 2008

by Levi Asher on Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:20 pm
African-American, New York Times Book Review
Lit-critics and bloggers have been debating whether or not Vladimir Nabokov's never-seen Laura should be published or burned (as Nabokov had instructed it should be). The public's verdict seems to be against incineration, but based on the evidence in today's New York Times Book Review one must guess that Ron Powers votes for the flames.
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Five Favorites from African American Lit

by Jamelah Earle on Friday, February 22, 2008 10:11 am
African-American, American, Classics, Lists
Five favorites from African-American literature:

1. Native Son by Richard Wright
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Donald Goines (or, Growing Up Gotti)

by Levi Asher on Tuesday, December 6, 2005 02:33 pm
African-American, Fiction, Film, Hiphop, Music
The writings of Donald Goines, an African-American author from Detroit who was murdered in 1974, were at the center of a heated court case in Brooklyn, New York that ended in a not-guilty verdict last week.
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