Good news, friends and neighbors: Twin Peaks is back on Showtime. For the uninitiated, Twin Peaks is a television series created by filmmaker David Lynch and writer Mark Frost. Set in a sleepy and slightly creepy Washington lumber town, the show centers around the investigation into the murder of Laura Palmer, a homecoming queen with […]
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Every few years I attend the Consumer Electronics Show, and each time I am blown away by the advances in technology. Going to the CES means walking through the almost seven million square feet of displays, and competing for foot space with over 175,000 people from all over the world. The show lasts for four
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Two weeks ago, I started a list of my top ten The Princess Bride novels, books I can always return to, pick up, and read. Each one of these novels changed the way I thought about reading, writing, and the way I saw the world. Here are installments seven through twelve. Straight Man by
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“Each time my feet touched the earth I knew my mother was there with me. I knew this body was not mine alone, but a living continuation of my mother and all my ancestors. These feet that I saw as ‘my’ feet were actually ‘our’ feet. Together, my mother and I were leaving damp footprints
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Book lists are important for writers and readers. They make us justify and clarify our reasons for loving the works we love, even if we only compile them for ourselves. It’s easy to say “Oh, I loved that book,” but it takes introspection and commitment to articulate precisely why you love it. If you’re like
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It may not have seemed so at the time, but 1977 was a good year for me. I was twelve years old, and even though I didn’t realize it, I was a pre-teen sponge. I absorbed everything around me. Unbeknownst to my parents, I’d read Stephen King’s then two-year-old novel Salem’s Lot (sorry, Mom). It simultaneously
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