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It sounded like an absurdity. Patrick deWitt’s second book, The Sisters Brothers,
had been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the redoubtable honor
bestowed annually on the finest British novel.
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The history of spam, and what the Nintendo Virtual Boy can teach us about the future of media.
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Finn Brunton is trying to figure out what the Internet
“is”: What it’s doing, how it works, and how it’s evolving. Formerly a
postdoctoral research fellow
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They’re out there. Clawing at your
mailbox. Gnawing at your mind as you sleep. Ready to devour you and your
family. They have no souls. They have no conscience. The only thing
driving them is the
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For a 31-year-old, Peter D. Richardson has spent an uncommon amount of time pondering—and filming—the end of life.
Last month, the Portland director’s movie How to Die in Oregon was
awarded th
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Cameryn Moore, a phone-sex operator, talk-show host and star of her own one-woman show, returns to her hometown this week with Phone Whore, an hourlong look into the life of a phone-sex operator. WW s ...
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The shop at Arciform, a North Portland-based antiques and home-refurbishing firm, is part carpentry center, part soapbox derby car garage. The Arciform crew has entered a team in the Portland Adult So ...
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The figure skater-turned-TV cook tells us exactly what he’d do.
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Only one man on the planet straddles the nexus between ice skaters, Food Network fans and South Park junkies—that’d be Brian Boitano. Back in the ’80s, he wowed crowds with his signa ...
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The songwriter, author and writer talks Callahan, politics and legendary fails.
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With the 1973 release of his classic debut, Sold American, singer-songwriter Kinky Friedman emerged with a fully formed, wholly unique Jewish cowboy persona—soo-ee generis, as it were. Hilarious ...
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