Berchon: vaguely exasperated, yet sexy
In Would it Kill You to Smile?, Michael Bierut argues that berchon is a girls’ game. See also old clichés & author photos.
In Would it Kill You to Smile?, Michael Bierut argues that berchon is a girls’ game. See also old clichés & author photos.
A bill would require Indiana bookstores to register with the state before selling sexually explicit materials, or face charges.
At last some acclaim for Kate Christensen’s The Great Man: The novel has won the 2008 Pen/Faulkner award for fiction. (Interview here; hot toddy recipe here.)
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The great — and ailing — Harry Crews is at work on a new volume of his memoirs, Assault of Memory. (Thanks, PH; see also.)