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Folks, we’re halfway through February and if you’re like me, the shiny and bright promise of a new year is already a little bit tarnished and we’re dug in, doing what we do, moving forward into 2013. Working. Playing. Taking [...]

February 18, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media

Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

The authors of Top Dog champion five works on winning (and losing).

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February 18, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media

Thomas Gray & the Hermit Tradition

February 16: On this day in 1751, Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" was published, becoming the most reprinted poem of the eighteenth century. Gray and his "Elegy" are central to the century's idealization of rusticity and reclusion, [...]

February 16, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media

Kalimpura

Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus reality in terms of quotidian rituals and observances, clothing and habitations, taboos and emotions, that the subcreation becomes [...]

February 15, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media

Everything Offered in the Land of the Living: A Conversation with Ashok Rajamani

Ashok Ramajani's memoir, The Day My Brain Exploded (A Spring '13 pick) is the astonishingly true (and shockingly funny) story of what happened after the author suffered a massive, near-fatal cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 25. He discusses the [...]

February 15, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media

Fire and Forget

These rousing "Short Stories of the Long War" are uniquely resonant, as fiction penned by Iraq and Afghanistan-stationed soldiers and their spouses. Foreword by Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin), with contributions from David Abrams (Fobbit), Phil Klay (The [...]

February 15, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media