Archive for July, 2007

Claymation Twain

Donna Bowman says The Adventures of Mark Twain in claymation is a far better introduction to Twain than the “sentimental kiddie stories.”

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Hear Shalom Auslander speak (over my cackling)

My Book Expo interview with Shalom Auslander is up. While talking about his forthcoming memoir, Foreskin’s Lament, we discussed: the many manuscripts he’s destroyed to escape divine retribution; his sex-starved (and imaginary) shiksa high school girlfriend; Red Lobster as the pinnacle of trayf; and much more. Auslander’s humor comes across in the recording, but his deadpan delivery is only partly . . .

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