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Current Selection
YOU SHALL KNOW
OUR VELOCITY
Dave Eggers

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Other Selections
(in no particular order)

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The Middle Stories
Sheila Heiti

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I.
Stephen Dixon

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SUPERBAD
Ben Greenman

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THE NEAL POLLACK
ANTHOLOGY of
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Neal Pollack

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SAMUEL JOHNSON IS
INDIGNANT
Lydia Davis

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THE NEW SINS
David Byrne

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THE PHARMACIST'S MATE
Amy Fusselman

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THIS SHAPE WE'RE IN
Jonathan Lethem

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LEMON
Lawrence Krauser

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A HEARTBREAKING WORK of
STAGGERING GENIUS
Dave Eggers

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McSWEENEY'S #9
McSWEENEY'S #8
McSWEENEY'S #7
McSWEENEY'S #6

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TIMOTHY McSWEENEY'S
INTERNET TENDENCY

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PollackFair -- a faux flyer promoting an imagined event

Washington Post Style Invitational
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/styleinvitational

Halfway House of the Not Ready for the Algonquin Roundtable Society
(losers of the above linked WP Style Invitational contests)
www.gopherdrool.com

Modern Humorist
www.modernhumorist.com

The Onion
www.theonion.com

The Atlantic Monthly
www.theatlantic.com

Utne Reader
www.utnereader.com

They Might Be Giants
www.tmbg.com
www.tmbg.org

Wub-Fur Internet Radio
wub-fur.dhs.org/radio

Studio360
www.wnyc.org/studio360/index.html

Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man)
www.deep-focus.com/flicker/dellamor.html

Bookworm
www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/
kcrw.pl?tmplt_type=program&show_code=bw

The Door Magazine
www.thedoormagazine.com

Harold and Maude
haroldlovesmaude.com

My Date with Destiny by Kevin Smith
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2001/08/26/
magazine/26STYLE-SS_1.html

A short list of other authors we read and enjoy:

Lemony Snicket
www.lemonysnicket.com

Vladimir Nabokov
www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/nabokov.html
(scroll to the McSweeney's #4 reference on 3.28.00)

David Sedaris
home.pacifier.com/~paddockt/sedaris.html

Spalding Gray
www.spaldinggray.com

Nick Bantock
www.nickbantock.com

E. E. Cummings (not e.e. cummings)
www.gvsu.edu/english/Cummings/Index.htm

Tom Robbins
www.rain.org/%7Eda5e/tom_robbins.html?197,43

Voltaire
humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/VSA/

Christopher Moore
www.chrismoore.com

Nickolai Gogol
www.newcriterion.com/archive/17/nov98/gogol.htm

Anne Lamott
www.typo.com/lamott/

Who and what we really really really (really really) miss:

SPY Magazine

Carmen Miranda

Rosalind Russell

Baskin Robbins black licorice ice cream

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