And it is fucking hysterical.
If you want a sample of this book, listen to Act 3 from this episode of "This American Life."
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/660/ho ... rself-2018
Fall Reading List
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"Foreskin's Lament" is a memoir about a writer's childhood in an abusive ultra-orthodox Jewish home, and his struggles to overcome both the psychological scars and the superstitions that persist in his life as he tries toi create a new life for his family and himself.
And it is fucking hysterical.
If you want a sample of this book, listen to Act 3 from this episode of "This American Life."
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/660/ho ... rself-2018
And it is fucking hysterical.
If you want a sample of this book, listen to Act 3 from this episode of "This American Life."
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/660/ho ... rself-2018
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
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This new Ronan Farrow book is going to be really, really good.
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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If you aren’t reading Shea Serrano then GtFO
You know what you need? A lyrical sucker punch to the face.
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I got this book out of the library and I REALLY wanted to like it but I only came away from it thinking Serrano's taste in movies mostly sucks.
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Yeah, I don't care for some of the movies he highlights, but I like his style a lot.
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This sounds like an interesting. Also sounds like Ari Shaffir's next hour, which I am really looking forward to.Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:49 am "Foreskin's Lament" is a memoir about a writer's childhood in an abusive ultra-orthodox Jewish home, and his struggles to overcome both the psychological scars and the superstitions that persist in his life as he tries toi create a new life for his family and himself.
And it is fucking hysterical.
If you want a sample of this book, listen to Act 3 from this episode of "This American Life."
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/660/ho ... rself-2018
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
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Le Batard podcast with Serrano, who has been giving away money like crazy.
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I love me some Shea, but I can't see a world in which I pay $10 for a single short story that's only 15 pages long.
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