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March 6, 2007 KR Blog Uncategorized

Short Takes

“To answer this question, I am going to talk about rectangles” (via AL Daily).

The lit nerd March Madness.

I don’t usually dig McSweeney’s, but this is hilarious.

Best American fantasy 2006 special mentions (congratulations to our own Bridget Bentz Sizer!).

Right, because Oprah is soooo credible. Have you seen her taste in books?

American Psycho made the list of books in which things end badly… because its narrator is still alive at the end. Relatedly, misery literature is so hot right now. As are chili peppers.

Philosophers, look away: a little bit about grue. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Throwing them across the room if I dislike them is approximately the limit of my book abuse. Tearing a book in half? Eesh.

“Emerging adults” sounds suspicious to me.

Ooh, pretty.