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“Naked on the Internet” – Not so revealing

By Ashley Wollam ⋅ August 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I just finished Audacia Ray’s Naked on the Internet, and I admit to having mixed feelings about it.
Having an interest in any form of cultural criticism, I remember my excitement upon seeing the book when browsing at my local bookstore. I read the back flap and was sold. I imagined that I knew very little [...]

Bravissimo, Alex. (Cinderella Story, by Alex Abramovich)

By Ashley Wollam ⋅ July 12, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

A few weeks ago I was thumbing through a GQ and somehow or other got sucked into a narrative piece about a writer’s attempt to reconnect with a one-time primary school bully (“Running with the Bully.” GQ June 2007: 122-127, 164, 166-167). The piece was fairly well done, though at the time I wasn’t necessarily [...]

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