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Poe and Derrida: The roommate years

After Bookslut directed my attention to the David Foster Wallace cartoon at pictures for sad children, I read through the archives. Much of the story centers on Paul, who has a crush on a coworker and still shows up to his cubicle even though he’s dead. The call center series is especially good. Last month the cartoonist, John Campbell, was . . .

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When home is a weekly-rate motel room, even the Bookmobile won’t visit

In “Nashville’s Other Skyline,” a print-only offering from the current issue of Oxford American, Richard Schweid investigates a different kind of homelessness: living in a motel. Three-quarters of the kids who attend one elementary school in the neighborhood he surveys have been homeless at some point. Almost 90% who start school there in September end up somewhere else by May. . . .

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