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Gatsby and the great American dread
By By Sean Reichard | Apr. 30, 2013Travesty. Tra-ves-ty. Noun. Plural: –ties. A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something.
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Venerating the verisimilar and the unreal
By By Sean Reichard | Apr. 23, 2013If it isn’t already a given, the things that happen in novels don’t happen in our lives—at least, not in the same way they do in novels.
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Floating in the froth with ‘roman a clefs’
By By Sean Reichard and Alex Pacheco | Apr. 17, 2013“A River Runs Through It.” “On the Road.” “All Quiet on the Western Front.” “The Bell Jar.” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” What do these books have in common, you might ask? Well, for one, they’re all rooted in autobiography, and their official title is roman a clefs (“novels with keys” in French).
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Milk Music: road trips and all that is good about indie
By By Sean Reichard | Apr. 12, 2013Anybody with even a remote interest in the history of American music would do well to check out Michael Azerrad’s “Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991.” It is a loving paean to a few of the most important bands on the American scene—bands like Minor Threat, Minutemen, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü and Dinosaur Jr—who could be said to constitute the pantheon of amerindie.
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Stuck between stations with Berryman
By By Sean Reichard | Apr. 9, 2013Apropos of nothing I picked up “The Dream Songs” by John Berryman, two years after I last read it. I can remember when I last read that book: driving to Madison with my dad in March, a weekend trip. I had known since December I was accepted to the university, but this March trip was the first time I had visited as an actual student, not an applicant. Perhaps that association is why “The Dream Songs” possesses so much poignancy in my memory.
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‘Missed connections’ of a book lover
By Molly Reppen and By Sean Reichard | Apr. 3, 2013It’s like this: Proust was walking one way up the street and I was walking one way down the street. We’ve got plans, each of us, busy schedules. But our eyes meet. We recognize each other. I say “Hi.” He doffs his hat—he doffs something, at least—but I stop him. I’ve got a terrible habit of this, sometimes.
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Deerhoof galloping back to Madison
By By Sean Reichard | Mar. 31, 2013How do you end up in a band like Deerhoof? From what fantastic and magical place did the members of Deerhoof crawl to form a band? What stratum did these unconventional headbangers spring from? The Daily Cardinal recently spoke with guitarist John Dieterich in anticipation of the group’s upcoming visit to Madison.
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The question is not always where, but when
By By Sean Reichard | Mar. 20, 2013One of my regrets from the summer was not finishing “Annals of the Former World” by John McPhee. Besides the fact he is one of the most terrific writers of the past 60 years, “Annals of the Former World” concerns itself with geology and geologic history, a subject of renewed interest for me. My interest is semi-facetious—although as an environmental studies major, rocks are generally always relevant—insofar as I don’t care so much for the names of eras and what they entail (I also have less of a memory for such things). But what really gets me about it is the geochronology aspect. The time part.
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To ‘e,’ or not to ‘e’: a take on digital books
By By Sean Reichard | Mar. 12, 2013I don’t buy books in any format, anymore unless I intend to read them more than once. And even on those rare instances, I’m more inclined towards Kindle books than paper ones, unless there’s some latent reason otherwise.
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The real authors of Anywhere, USA
By By Sean Reichard | Mar. 6, 2013Can you be an author of serious work and still have a personal life to boot? What kind of a question is that?
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