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13 Things a Stand-Up Comedian Won't Tell You
13 Things a Stand-Up Comedian Won’t Tell You

We’ll do almost anything to get onstage. Find out what other secrets our profession holds. >>

Chaos Cinema
Chaos Cinema

Movie producers attempts to overwhelm our senses have made movies into unintelligible sensory… >>

Links We Liked - Books 9/1/11
Links We Liked – Books 9/1/11

Other Scandinavian fiction writers, the birth of The Godfather, Five Children and It, classic poker… >>

The Bad Guys
The Bad Guys

How pulp fiction has used "Oriental" villains, from Fu Manchu to modern Arabs, to raise a ruckus in… >>

The Parade's Gone By...
The Parade’s Gone By…

RD Recommends "The Parade's Gone By..." by Kevin Brownlow, a history of the silent film era by a… >>

Best-Dressed Books
Best-Dressed Books

These beautiful books are way beyond paperbacks. >>

Best Western
Best Western

Iconic photographs show the true modern-day western U.S. >>

Best Double Takes
Best Double Takes

5 literature classics that were also memorable movies. >>

Best Literary Light
Best Literary Light

E. L. Doctorow brings the history of America into focus. >>

Best Delivery
Best Delivery

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat may have been the greatest single… >>