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Twenty years of reading, watching, writing, and asking questions. Explore my latest essays, book and movie reviews, and dispatches from the world of The Chronicles of Purgatory Station.
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Casino Royale – A Movie Review
Okay, so as much as I enjoyed the previous James Bond movies, at no point did I actually think any of them (yes, ANY…
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DC: The New Frontier, Volumes I and II – A Graphic Novel Review
Note: This review refers to DC: The New Frontier Volumes I and II. If you are a DC fan-I mean a hard core, DC…
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Green Arrow: Moving Targets – A Graphic Novel Review
Warning: If you’ve ignored national media for the last year, you may read some spoilers below… So why write a review for Green Arrow:…
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Ex Machina: Fact vs. Fiction – A Graphic Novel Review
Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris continue to impress with the third trade paperback of the Ex Machina series. In this installment, a new…
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Oracle Night by Paul Auster – A Book Review
Stylistically somewhere between The New York Trilogy and The Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night encompasses what I loved about both. Auster gives us a bit…
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Everyman by Philip Roth – A Book Review
I remember back when this book was first released, I simply could not fork over the hardcover price for something so thin. In retrospect,…
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The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon – A Book Review
Okay, you’ve heard me say it before, so you can all say it with me now, “Michael Chabon is America’s greatest contemporary author.” You…
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Children of Men – A Movie Review
A more startling version of our apparently impending dystopian future I cannot imagine. Children of Men disturbed me greatly because it completely did not…
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