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January 31, 2012
Japan’s “National Disease” 0
by Nick Moran
It’s hard to believe that the country containing Aokigahara, or “The Suicide Forest”, has for so long ignored its abundance of clinically depressed, “overworked” citizens, but Junko Kitanaka, in her book Depression in Japan, explains exactly why that’s happened.
January 31, 2012
Yankee Spinach Foxtrot 0
by Nick Moran
Wilco appeared in a Popeye comic strip, and they also released an animated music video featuring the sailor, Olive Oyl, and Bluto.
January 31, 2012
Appearing Elsewhere 0
by Lydia Kiesling
My review of Eowyn Ivey‘s debut novel, The Snow Child, is up at Slate.
January 31, 2012
Banana Yoshimoto Interview 0
by Nick Moran
Banana Yoshimoto, whose novel The Lake was recently shortlisted for the Man Asian Prize, does an interview with Melville House.
January 31, 2012
People Are Strange: Diane Williams’ Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty 1
by Anne K. Yoder
We can’t escape eccentricity, but we can become habituated to it.
January 31, 2012
Drinking JJS While Reading JJS 0
by Nick Moran
One of the best parts of last month’s Cullman Center discussion between John Jeremiah Sullivan and Wells Tower was watching JJS carry on the conversation while sipping from a highball glass of whiskey. The essayist’s Southern roots and Irish ancestry of course make him no stranger to potent potables, which is why Danny Nowell’s “John [...]
