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American Life
The wonderfully idiosyncratic sporting variant achieved extraordinary popularity in rural Iowa
Bill Kauffman
Since democracy is dead in New York, I write in dead persons
The fringes of fame, the outer purlieus of power, are always much more interesting than the epicenter
‘My forty-five-year-old self is inhabiting my nine-year-old body’
When I go on an early 1970s jag — revisiting the golden age of American cinema — I can never bring myself to rewatch Five Easy Pieces