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31/31: Pariah
December 31, 2011 – 11:08 AM | One Comment
31/31: <I>Pariah</I>

Get me a beer, please.
It’s Sunday morning!
It goes with the spaghetti!
Pariah is in many ways a standard sexual-identity coming-of-age story. Teenager Alike (Adepero Oduye) (and it’s pronounced “ah-LEE-kay”…geddit?) is gay, and outside the …

All the ormolu that’s fit to print: Works of Edith Wharton
August 17, 2009 – 11:10 AM | 36 Comments
All the ormolu that’s fit to print: <I>Works of Edith Wharton</I>

Works of Edith Wharton does not contain all of Wharton’s works — to fit the novels and the gardening/architecture stuff and the erotica and the letters and all the other “and”s into one volume obviously …