Yap Yap Yap Identity theft is no joke, but Citibank has some pretty funny commercials for it. Maybe they inspired T.C. Boyle to write his 19 [...] Thomas Gilchrist \ Aug 23, 2007 Read More
Want To Live? Read This. If you happened to pose with any zombies for a picture during the Alibi’s scavenger hunt, you were in grave danger and probably [...] Thomas Gilchrist \ Aug 16, 2007 Read More
Back To Nature The Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles, masters of Edenic Nutritional Science, have a problem. Desperate for smarter children from the wombs of new women outside [...] Thomas Gilchrist \ Aug 02, 2007 Read More
Hunting Season On TV and the big screen, law enforcement officers kick down doors fearlessly, produce warrants instantaneously, and never, ever get stopped for speeding. [...] John Freeman \ Aug 02, 2007 Read More
Spit Shine You’re not Master of the Universe unless there’s someone at your feet, preferably kneeling. In Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities , Sherman [...] John Freeman \ Jul 26, 2007 Read More
How My Childhood Was Not At All Like Anne Of Green Gables Why Illiteracy Is Sometimes Best Last week on vacation we stumbled across this funny street sign depicting a dude holding a book with a lightning bolt on the [...] Marisa Demarco \ Jul 05, 2007 Read More
The Wendigo What’s That Smell? As Algonquin legend would have it, the frozen forests of Canada are home to the Wendigo, a malignant Yeti-like spirit that heaps fear [...] Nick Brown \ Jul 05, 2007 Read More
Through The Trees Few American writers can describe the ecology of a region quite like Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard. In her slim, poetic new novel, [...] John Freeman \ Jun 28, 2007 Read More
Nature Is Fierce "Tired of understanding life," writes Australian poet Les Murray in "Twelve Poems," one of the best verses in his new collection, The Biplane [...] John Freeman \ Jun 28, 2007 Read More
One Little Indian Boy In the early ’90s, when I was teaching writing at Fort Lewis College in Durango, I discovered a slim book of short stories [...] Lisa Lenard-Cook \ Jun 14, 2007 Read More