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  • Kidman to Play a Suicidal Artist Once More! Unreported: how large a prosthetic nose Diane Arbus merits.

  • We’ve already heard that the adaptation of Prozac Nation is gawd-awful, but New York Magazine also argues it “gives writing itself a bad name.”
  • Scott McLemee warns readers of James Atlas’s My Life in the Middle Ages, “If you belong to a household making under, say, $150,000 per year, it may be difficult to read this book without experiencing a keen desire to go kick the author. And if you earn more than that, you may still want to kick him.”
  • “People are always asking what is going to be the next big thing,” says a Waterstone’s buyer in the Independent. “Obscure Renaissance texts are my next trend!
  • Russell Smith reflects on book readings in the Globe and Mail: “If I hear a no ther po etry read ing that sounds like this I’m go ing to DIE.”
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