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Type: fiction

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Author: Zadie Smith

Tags: religion immigrants london race fundamentalism

2005-12-23

  & 8 users

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Author: Charles Burns

Tags: mutants sexuality comics teenagers angst 2005dec outsiders

2005-12-15

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Author: Daniel Clowes

Tags: comics graphicnovel clowes 2005-12

2005-12-15

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Author: Dave Eggers

Tags: 2004

Description: Sometimes I secretly wish that my parents would die so that I could raise my ten year old sister.Sometimes I secretly wish that my parents would die so that I could raise my ten year old sister. Eggers is bold, not only to admit it, but to print a book about it.

That being said, it might come across as too gimmicky and postmodern for some. I thought it was playful and that if Eggers wanted to be gratuitously self-referrential that it was indulgent but also hilarious and something I could relate to.

It is interesting now too as the autobiography of someone who has been involved in McSweeny's, which puts out some of the most highly imaginative packaging and sub-cultural fiction today. ...

2005-11-12

  & 2 users

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Authors: Herbert Lomas Johanna Sinisalo

Tags: sexuality finland folklore 2005-12 nature/civilization trolls

2005-11-12

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Author: Davy Rothbart

2005-10-23

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Author: Neil Gaiman

Tags: family gods mythology 2005-12

2005-10-23

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Author: Aimee Bender

Tags: short.stories 2005-10

2005-10-13

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Author: George Saunders

Tags: short_stories 2004

2005-09-19

  & 6 users

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Author: Kelly Link

Tags: short_stories 2005

2005-09-19