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Paul Maslansky plans to adapt Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter. His credits, says TEV, don’t inspire optimism.

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Not an Onion headline, #517: “Three Cheers for the Patriarchy: Pride and prejudiced English professors.”

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Narrative and the photobooth, and the 2006 ITP show

Imagine a battalion of artists and mad scientists turned loose on the set of Dr. Who for a semester, and you might be envisioning something like NYU’s annual ITP show. It’s a youth fair for grown people who always wanted a TARDIS. Also, it’s free and open to the public, and, if you go — tonight’s the last night — . . .

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Chick lit begets “Mom lit,” which, dooce argues, “reads like someone sat around in a marketing meeting and said, ‘What can we sell to this generation of mothers?’”

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