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Dan Savage: All American

Desiree Kelly
By Michael Jackman
Metro Times | November 30, 2012
Dan Savage has slipped the sultry bonds of sex advice to become something more, a sort of ethicist for the growing progressive wing of American culture.
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Lizz Winstead bites back

The political pundit and creator of The Daily Show discusses the feminist elite, slut-shaming, and the difference between essay and memoir
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  05-09-2013  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries

Global warming is but one of nine or 10 different ways in which human civilization is threatening to cross boundaries of over-consumption and overuse. These, will undermine the natural foundations on which our civilization is built.
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Making Worlds

In "The Kings and Queens of Roam," author Daniel Wallace illustrates the power words have to make worlds, both in the tragic whimsy of the world his words create and in the sad, scary world one character builds for another.
Jackson Free Press  |  Kathleen M. Mitchell  |  05-14-2013  |  Books

A 1970 Race Murder in North Carolina is Recalled

Tim Tyson was 10 years old when a black man was murdered in his hometown for allegedly making a remark to a white man's wife. The accused killers were acquitted by an all-white jury. Tyson, now a professor of Afro-American studies, makes sense of the murder in his new book.
Isthmus  |  Ellen Meany  |  09-07-2004  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

'A Paradise Built in Hell' Explores the Utopic Possibilities Glimpsed in Disaster

Perhaps the primary virtue of Rebecca Solnit's clear-headed new book is that it does not simply swap one interpretation of disaster -- as anticonsumerist reckoning, for instance -- for another, such as Jerry Falwell-style damnation. Solnit is interested in how people act in the aftermath, for better and for worse.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Max Goldberg  |  09-30-2009  |  Nonfiction