America

Book Review: “No One Left To Come Looking For You” — An Amusing Excursion

January 7, 2023
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Sam Lipsyte’s latest novel does a bang-up job of capturing the edgy and zany milieu of the early ’90s.

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Short Fuse Podcast #55: Talking to Author Meredith Hall about “Beneficence”

June 14, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to author Meredith Hall about her debut novel Beneficence, which deals with a family traumatized by death of a child by a gun.

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Concert Review/Interview: America at Lowell Memorial Auditorium

March 28, 2022
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In Lowell, America played to a packed, enthusiastic, Centrum Silver-popping crowd who sang along with the band’s impressively deep roster of hits.

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Book Review: Ohio Bound — “Far From Their Eyes”

October 27, 2021
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This anthology, for all its occasional sadness, is optimistic about the future of immigration to America.

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Book Review: “America: The Farewell Tour” — Has Our Ship Already Sailed?

December 2, 2018
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America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.

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Fuse Film Review: “Where to Invade Next” — Welcome Winds of Change

February 11, 2016
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The lightheartedness of the writing and Moore’s unkempt look are jarring, but the film effectively delivers lessons about progressive policies.

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Theater Review: “The Wakeville Stories” – Theater as Civic Ritual

June 26, 2015
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Dramatist Laurence Carr has a gift for vivid characterization and for creating a concrete sense of time and place.

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Book Review: “Shame” — Racism and the Sins of Paternalistic Liberalism

April 8, 2015
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According to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”

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Fuse Book Review: “Wilde in America” — Not Wild Enough?

February 13, 2015
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What Oscar Wilde was peddling in America was beauty. Art for art’s sake. Gorgeous flowers. Ravishing colors.

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Book Interview: S.T. Joshi on Ambrose Bierce — The Underappreciated Genius of Being Grim

January 24, 2012
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Bierce proffers a satiric temperament gone wild and woolly, partly propelled by a revulsion at the criminal vulgarity of the Gilded Age. Given the current triumph of the 1%, his fury at power mad corporations is worth an admiring look.

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