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Acme Novelty Library #20 by Chris Ware
September 11, 2011, No Comments

Chris Ware creates a standalone profile of Rusty Brown nemesis Jordan Lint in Acme Novelty Library #20.

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A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
September 2, 2011, No Comments

There are many kinds of human suffering. Nick Hornby covers a novel's worth in A Long Way Down.

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Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
July 30, 2011, 4 Comments

Travel with Lily through Swift'sGulliver's Travels, a book she recommends to children of all ages. Yes, that mean ...

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Baffled by Blake Butler’s There Is No Year
July 23, 2011, No Comments

Niles read Blake Butler's There Is No Year, so you don't have to. You're welcome.

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Stories In The Worst Way by Gary Lutz
May 25, 2011, 1 Comment

Our library just opened and it's already filling up quick. Niles "Junior" Bellefonte is Donnybrook's newest bookworm. He ...

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Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
May 23, 2011, 6 Comments

Introducing Donnybrook's new hot librarian, Lily Stamper Lalage, with the column Stop Reading Crap Made for Five-Year-Ol ...

Sonnet to Digital Silence
April 17, 2008, No Comments

Donnybrook's resident poet recklessly throws down the absinthe, and picks up a phone; and texts this sonnet to you, good ...

Telepathy
November 12, 2007, No Comments

Is there fruit in building telepathy When a text message will suffice? Is there romance in abbreviated bits Of transmiss ...

Lullaby
October 31, 2007, 3 Comments

I fell asleep with my ears ringing Mouth so dry, parched, my throat Thinking about what he was singing Oh, shivering. Th ...

Bad Weather Sonnet
October 8, 2007, 3 Comments

didn’t check the clock, got there just in time how minutes shrink and stretch wildly in the night very first notes ran ...