Author: Alex Irvine
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1908
That was the year my grandmother Mabel Irvine, who died yesterday, was born. I got curious about what the world was like in 1908, and this is what I found. Simone de Beauvoir, Tex Avery, Edward Teller, Louis L’Amour, Bette Davis, Lionel Hampton, Mel Blanc, Jimmy Stewart, Ian Fleming, Milton Berle, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Wright,…
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People Who Are More Misanthropic Than You
The Buffalo Beast presents its 2008 list of the 50 Most Loathsome People in America. Sometimes I think I hate everyone, but then I read stuff like this and realize that when it comes to hate, I have a lot to learn.
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Borders: A Slightly Premature Elegy
So I used to work at Borders. Two stints, in fact. One at the old mothership on State Street in Ann Arbor, and a second nine years later at the Framingham, MA, store. Both are now gone, and by the looks of things, Borders itself might not last too much longer. I’m thinking of this…
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First Article I Ever Published
Like I said before, I know I’m supposed to hate Google Books, but I’ve never seen this article nor held a copy of the book in my hands (thanks to the author-copy policies of Greenwood Press, which I’m sure have their own perfectly valid reasons for existing). I wrote this in 1998 for the International…
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Tweetcognito
Somebody using the handle Will_Ferrell is now following me on Twitter. Wonder what the odds are that it’s the genuine article, and what sort of sanctions are in place for creating celebrity doppelgangers.
Crooked House Fictions 