“I could puke every time I hear it.”

from the Guardian From everyteen to annoying: are today’s young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye? JD Salinger’s Holden Caulfield once seemed the universal voice of teenage angst, but now he’s too quaint for young people. Can we learn to love it again,...

Thanks

from The Fix Silencing that Voice  By Boozemusings Co… In the last few months of my long and illustrious drinking career, there was a voice that began to whisper melodically to me. I heard it’s song nightly near the end of the second bottle of wine. The...

Decadent U.

from Esquire The Secret Oral History of Bennington: The 1980s’ Most Decadent College Fall, 1982. A new freshman class arrives at arty, louche, and expensive Bennington College. Among the druggies, rebels, heirs, and posers: future Gen X literary stars Donna...

Naked Bookseller Gone

from the Parker Pioneer Quartzsite’s ‘Naked Bookseller’ Paul Winer dies By John Gutekunst and Brandon Bowers Long-time Quartzsite resident Paul Winer died the evening of May 7 at his home. He was 75 years old. Winer was best known as the owner of...