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BROOOOOCE TV: The Best Bruce Springsteen Television Moments

December 17, 2020 by Caryn Rose 8 Comments

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band appear on the season finale of Saturday Night Live this week, to promote the release of the 35th anniversary box set of The River, and Springsteen will also be joining Jimmy Fallon on the couch later this evening on The Tonight Show, Mainstream network television appearances were not something Bruce…

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‘When The Moon Was Ours’ Has Some Murky Magic And A Lovely Secret

December 16, 2020 by Lyda Morehouse Leave a Comment

When the Moon Was Ours Anne-Marie McLemore Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature When the Moon Was Ours is about secrets. There’s a lot of magic in this book, too, the kind of strange, commonplace everyday weirdness that’s typical of the magical realism genre. For example, one of our main…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: Anne-Marie McLemore, National Book Award, when the moon was ours

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Review: Why ‘Pax Technica’ Is A Good Book with a Bad Argument

December 16, 2020 by Bitter Staff 1 Comment

Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up Philip N. Howard Yale University Press The Internet of Things may set us free, or lock us up, but Pax Technica won’t give much insight into how either eventuality will occur, mostly because it seems like the author isn’t particularly…

Filed Under: Critic, Featured Tagged With: book review, Internet of Things, Pax Technica

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Cuckoo Song: A Subtle, Creepy Masterpiece

September 26, 2020 by Lyda Morehouse Leave a Comment

Cuckoo Song Frances Hardinge British Fantasy Award Winner 2015 Cuckoo Song is apparently a middle grade book. I would never have guessed that. Not, as they say, in a million years. I mean, yes, the protagonists are in that age range. But, the writing is dark, twisty, and… gorgeous. There are situations that are hair-raisingly terrifying…

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The Town that Zombies Built

June 29, 2019 by Bitter Critic Leave a Comment

For the past six years, the town of Jasper, Alabama has been subjected to the whims of a crazy lady creating a low budget zombie movie. Now, they are being subjected to the crazy whims of SyFy documenting the crazy lady creating a low budget zombie movie. And you can watch it all on their…

Filed Under: Critic, recap Tagged With: recap, Town of the Living Dead

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Ghettoside: We’ve Been Doing Policing All Wrong

June 20, 2019 by Anniken Davenport Leave a Comment

Bitter Lawyer readers, myself included, are bitter for a reason. We’ve seen our profession degraded, our sense of justice and our devotion to the ideal of the Rule of Law ridiculed. But every now and then someone – usually an outsider to the profession – comes along and offers insight and hope: insight into a…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: ghettoside, jill leovy, policing

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Story Time: Live Blogging “Feeling The Bern In My Butt” By Chuck Tingle

June 16, 2019 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

We’re back to bring you MORE Chuck Tingle today, with a selection that we’re been utterly remiss for not having liveblogged for the masses sooner: “Feeling the Bern in My Butt” by Chuck Tingle. Yesterday we liveblogged Tingle’s Hugo-award nominated “Space Raptor Butt Invasion.” So without further ado, join us as we feel the Bern, Chuck Tingle style!

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How We Learn: A Book That Is More Fun Than It Sounds

June 11, 2019 by Jennifer Richler Leave a Comment

Did you know that when it comes to learning, forgetting is good, but reviewing is bad? In his new book How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens New York Times science reporter Benedict Carey offers many such revelations, using the research on learning to challenge our assumptions about how…

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5 Terrific Games You Should Be Playing Instead of Trivial Pursuit

May 13, 2019 by Naomi Kritzer 1 Comment

Do people still play Trivial Pursuit? (I mean, it’s fine if it’s taking the form of a Pub Quiz, but as a family?) My recollection of Trivial Pursuit was playing it at slumber parties in the 1980s and being completely unable to answer any of the questions because it was a game carefully engineered for Baby…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: apples to apples, board games, cards against humanity, curses, likewise, morphology, party, telestrations, trivial pursuit

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On Object Permanence In The WWE

April 1, 2019 by Calvin Kasulke 1 Comment

I. Should your roommate (Fig. 1, “Sam”) purchase a projector for your apartment, you may experience a televisual shift away from your traditional solo-Netflix viewership. Through an HDMI attachment to a laptop, beaming the projection across a Bradburian chunk of your living room wall may cause an increase in sharing one another’s company during screen…

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