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The Best of Harry Potter Fan Fiction
This is a continuation of the comment thread found at http://www.jewcy.com/daily_shvitz/the_best_of_harry_potter_fan_fiction I believe my next article WILL be on reading comprehension. I never said I enjoy fan fiction, Mike. I said I have a sick fascination with it. True, I … Read More
The Best of Harry Potter Fan Fiction
I have a sick fascination with fan fiction, those often epic-novels written by ardent fans of movies, television shows, books, boy bands, video games and, strangely, real people. It’s not simply that I’m interested in the intense fandom exhibited by … Read More
Is This the End of the Stand-Alone Book Review?
Each Sunday, I commit a crime in the name of personal literacy: I steal the New York Times Sunday Book Review from Starbucks. I’m not even discreet about it. I order my drink and whatever mound of trans-fat appeals to … Read More
Burning Down the House
One of the more curious aspects of American culture is the way oppressed groups co-opt the words once used to denigrate them, turning them into accepted language within their own culture. Desensitization is a powerful coping tool, though what never … Read More
Shvitz Exclusive: Tod Goldberg Does The LA Times Book Festival
A popular misconception about Los Angeles is that it's a town full of illiterate, fame-obsessed aspiring screenwriters whose most intense relationship with literature is Starbucks' employee relations manual. Well, perhaps that's not the most popular misconception — there's the one … Read More
Shvitz Exclusive: Tod Goldberg Fakes It
[My girlfriend Sarah forwarded me a link to a Chronicle of Higher Ed article on faking literacy. Not sure how this bodes for the state of our relationship, but I knew Jewcy contributor Tod Goldberg would dilate admirably this subject. … Read More
Will Undead Jews Really Roll to Jerusalem?
Easter is the most brilliantly spooky of Christian holidays. Jesus the Zombie busts out of his grave and struts around for a couple days—some call this theology, I call it the stuff of nightmares. I prefer to think of Jesus … Read More
Does Adult Circumcision Hurt?
Men the world over are pondering their foreskins with a renewed sense of purpose due to a recently published clinical study in Africa that claims circumcised men are significantly less susceptible to HIV. Those curious about the gritty details of … Read More
Speak No Evil
Last week, when the Pulitzer Prize board announced that blog posts are now eligible for the award, blogging officially became as cool as the episode of Life Goes On where Corky lip-synched (and moonwalked to) Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power.” … Read More