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March 11, 2013"Authors are just notoriously difficult," says the publicity director in Jessica Francis Kane's story "How to Become a Publicist" from her 2002 collection Bending Heaven. While this might be true of some writers, we can't imagine anyone saying it of Kane, who was warm, cheerful, and funny when The V ... More >>
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October 25, 2012Young people!
Everyone always complains that "The new generation has no idea how to read blah blah, and they've lost out on a treasured art form blah blah," but it turns out that's not so at all.
According to a new survey, the most likely book readers in America are high school students, college-a ... More >>
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October 17, 2012Voice Choices
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August 1, 2012She'll be joined in conversation by award-winning author Adam Rapp and journalist Sarah Weinman.
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March 28, 2012Voice Choices
March 7, 2012Diane Williams reads from her latest collection
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December 21, 2011Voice writers pick their favorites of the year
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September 28, 2011Voice Choices
June 15, 2011Spend your lunch break with Michael Showalter and Jenny Slate
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January 19, 2011Voice Choices
January 12, 2011Tour the Florida swamps with Karen Russell
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December 8, 2010Vocoders, bohos, and a blast of vertigo—Village Voice writers pick their faves of the year
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November 24, 2010Blogs
November 18, 2010Patti Smith, who did actually smile last night. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction last night at the Cirpirani Ballroom on Wall Street. It was, to say the least, a surprising moment.
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October 17, 2010The New York Times Book Review for October 17, 2010 features Great House author Nicole Krauss on its cover. The book, her highly anticipated third novel and the follow-up to The History of Love, is reviewed by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in an article entitled "Hearts Full of Sorrow," teased ... More >>
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September 29, 2010Books
September 1, 2010Meet the screw-ups of [you] Ruined It For Everyone!
Voice Choices
July 13, 2010A conversation with Chuck Close
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March 24, 2010Failed again! Scribblers, orphans, and punks fumble through life in three new novels
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August 4, 2009Richard Unterberger discusses his new book on the Velvet Underground
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May 27, 2009Voice Choices
March 18, 2009Voice Choices
November 5, 2008Neil Gaiman gives you a nerd-gasm
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May 27, 2008Lynda Barry emerges for a round of applause
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August 28, 2007Theater
October 10, 2006Dramatizing Barbara Ehrenreich's working class heroines
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April 12, 2005Books
October 26, 2004Books
August 31, 2004Books
December 9, 2003Books
July 22, 2003Alan Moore's Supreme Achievement
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October 1, 2002Rohinton Mistry's 'Family Matters'
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September 3, 2002L.A. Poet Dares to Blast Angelou, Stirs Up a Storm
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August 20, 2002Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and Greg
Palast Hit Bestseller List With Incendiary Books
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February 12, 2002Books
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January 15, 2002Film
January 1, 2002Books
November 20, 2001An Interview With Novelist-Turned-Activist Arundhati Roy
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July 31, 2001At a Literary Retreat, Authors Debate the Mainstreaming of African American Lit
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July 11, 2000A Rough Guide to the Flash and Trash of Summer Reading
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July 4, 2000'Slate' Gets Self-Critical
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November 30, 1999A Necessary Burning of Books
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May 26, 1998A court ruling this month brings the shadowy world of vanity publishing into the open
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