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“A Delicious Obsession: The Work of M.F.K. Fisher”
John Updike called her “the poet of the appetites.” W.H. Auden said, “I do not... More>>
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Mogwai, Fuck Buttons
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Built to Spill, Quasi, Off Campus
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