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2006 Stories by Darren Reidy

• Blue's Clues

  published August 15, 2006

  At the outset of Marisha Pessl's first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, 16-year-old narrator Blue van Meer promises to tell us... More >>

• Rejoyce

  published May 16, 2006

  When Marcel Duchamp drew a goatee on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa, adding the mildly lascivious legend "L.H.O.O.Q." ("She's got a hot ass"), it... More >>

• Voice Contributor's Debut Novel Unspools Homer

  published April 4, 2006

  It's hard to imagine Anthony Quinn's Antinoos, a fatty meat slab of unbrokered confidence and distorted pride, showing up in the movie version of... More >>

• St. Shane's Day

  published March 28, 2006

  A lot of Pogues fans seem to identify with Shane MacGowan, and in real personal ways. On Paddy's Eve at Nokia Theatre, one twentysomething was... More >>

• Good Ole Dog

  published March 7, 2006

  The Irish Rover turns 12 this year, outlasting by five winters its doomed namesake, a New York-bound barque loaded with "7 million barrels of... More >>

• 'Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero'

  published January 3, 2006

  Stretched to an unendurable 118 minutes and consisting of 12 chapters (one set to a suggestive jazz track called "Que?"), this 9-11 doc focuses on... More >>

• Theater

  published January 3, 2006

  Bar Flies feeds on a willingness to believe, despite past evidence, that the world is knowable, that the familiar will remain so: A drunk maid of... More >>