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I’m too much of an American for my own good. I love sitcoms. I love action thrillers. My idea of austerity is giving up some cable channels.

We recently restored said

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It’s good to know that the ”that’s what she said” school of cultural criticism is thriving.

Evidently the “pad” in iPad forces some wags to think of feminine protection products.  Of

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Note: Some plot spoilers.

As a lifestyle, polygamy leads to messianic husbands, docile women, discarded sons, and abused girls.  But it’s a particle accelerator for drama. Hello, jealousy, misunderstanding, complication, repression,

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Sometime over the holidays, some 16-year-old on a morning show was warbling a Christmas song actually called The Christmas Song. And I was thinking: thank you, American Idol. Thanks to

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As much as I enjoy visits to Winona, I used to miss the urban pleasures of coffee houses and bookstores. But I’ve recently discovered that Best of Times Bookstore and Lily’s

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My entry into Dan O’Shea’s Airport Flash Fiction contest.

Here is a heaven. Here is a utopia.

Running late. Running mad. A drive, at 5:30 a.m., down West Seventh Street. Past

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Back in the bad old days, the Minneapolis writer Bob Lacy had a really useful thing to say at the start of every workshop: remember: fiction can always win sentence

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1960 continues to enjoy its fifteen minutes, which is fine by me. In Nick Hornby’s An Education (based on Lynn Barber’s memoir), we see London and Oxford and Paris through

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