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Here is the last few weekend’s worth of weekend reading…

• The Guardian offers a from Susan Faludi’s The Terror Dream: Fear & Fantasy In Post 9-11 America. A lot of what is discussed in these excerpts were the sort of thing that freaked me out “post 9-11″ and prompted me to start writing notes for what would become War Prayers later.
• The Nation recently reprinted one of my favorite Kurt Vonnegut pieces, The Worst Addiction Of Them All.
• Two from The Quarterly Conversation: reviews of Junot Diaz and Vasily Grossman.

• The Little Professor offers a lengthy, and very thoughtful, review of Marc Bousquet’s How The University Works.
• Our weekly two from The Quarterly Conversation: reviews of Mari Akasaka and Jose Maria Eça de Queirós.
• Lewis Call’s .

• Mother Jones interviews Marjane Satrapi.
• Three from The Quarterly Conversation: Natsume Soseki, Ron Currie Jr., and Selah Saterstrom.

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She has only updated it three times in eight months, but why didn’t anyone tell me Marjane Satrapi had a blog!?

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• The Reading Experience has another post about John Dewey up.

• One of my favorite pieces of Transformers fan fiction is A Chance In A Million. Now that I think about it, it might have been the first one I ever read too when I got back into the fandom in 1997.

• Scott over at Conversational Reading finds War & Peace to be a bit of a disappointment. I started reading it back in high school but never finished it. Maybe I will pick that up again this summer.

• It seems that I link to a Marjane Satrapi interview almost every week. This week’s interview is from Nerve:

I have to tell you something: I never felt as free as when I wrote Chicken with Plums. When I write about women, and obviously when I write about myself like in Persepolis people relate [the text] to me. In this book, the main character in is a man. I could hide behind him, yet in some ways, he is me. I can be very cynical, but I can also die of love.

• Incoming Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is interviewed over at Mother Jones:

Third, I want to take a look at some of the good things that are being done around the rest of the world that are almost never discussed in the United States. How often is it discussed that the American people work the longest hours of any industrialized country in the world? The two-week paid vacation is almost a thing of the past; meanwhile in Europe you get four to six weeks vacation, and maternity leave with pay. We don’t know about these things. I want to take a look around the world and see what workers are receiving, and compare that to the United States” from an educational point of view.

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Weekend reading for the long holiday weekend:

• I read this paper a few years ago, but Susan Herring’s Searching For Safety Online: Managing Trolling In A Feminist Forum is worth a second, or first, look.

• Via the Dartmouth Writing Program’s website, here is a guide to revising academic papers.

• Via Matthew G Kirschenbaum’s excellent blog I found out about a new blog at the University of Maryland called On Purpose.

• Issue fifty four of Bookslut is online. I am very interested in reading the interview with Marjane Satrapi.

• If you haven’t looked at it in awhile it is a good time to check out Obey Giant again.

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Worth reading this weekend:

• This article from Wired highlights a lot of the stuff I hate about Myspace. Thankfully there is a Greasemonkey script to get rid of a lot of it.

• I had no idea until recently that Borges’ maid wrote a book about him.

• Torill over at the excellent Thinking With My Fingers blog has a great post about gaming and time. I am particularly interested in her thoughts on addiction.

• Tough Love by C.N. Winters is an excellent Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan fiction portraying the aftermath of a hate crime against Tara.

• Not only is Marjane Satrapi one of my favorite contemporary authors, she is also an excellent interviewee. This interview with the Star Tribune is no exception:
  
  Q So no superheroes, huh?
  
  A Not really. The problem with superhero comics is that most of the characters are men so there is no way that I can identify. And the woman always have big breasts and long legs. The only character that can be a little bit seducing is Catwoman, but she’s so mean. And then you have Wonder Woman, but you don’t believe with these big breasts she can go and make justice in the world.

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Read in 2005: Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi.

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Bookslut has a great review up of Marjane Satrapi’s newest book Embroideries. The next time I buy books I will have to be sure to pick this up.

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