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Lost and Found

As a new feature on the site, I will begin publishing an expanded definition of literary curiosities for us to love, hate, or make fun of together. This includes lost and found letters, lists, how-to manuals, and anything else that tells a story. Feel free to share your finds as well, and perhaps we’ll post [...]

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Picks For August

Grind Show Reviews

  • Kafka on the Shore

    As one of our greatest living storytellers, Haruki Murakami has the ability to weave circumstances together that ordinary writers would not touch. He continues to demonstrate his ability in Kafka on the Shore. In the wrong hands his visions could easily branch in to silly gimmick. Fish fall from the sky. Colonel Sanders pimps in [...]

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  • Never Let Me Go

    Ya know, I was totally okay with human cloning. I didn’t see a “perfected human” coming along any time soon, simply because we could never agree on what that means. I think people ultimately desire little versions of themselves. Bookworms want brains, jocks want biceps, and models want cheekbones. And nature does a pretty good [...]

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  • Real Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Handbook

    Do you like ninjas? Who doesn’t, right? Especially when they are flipping out and cutting off heads. But I doubt anyone obsesses over ninjas as much as a ten year old boy named Robert Hamburger. He can’t stop thinking about them. “These guys are cool; and by cool I mean totally sweet.”

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