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(05/26/10 2:00am)
Addison is not your typical high school senior at least not in most areas of the country. He attends an elite private school in Washington, D.C., where he deals marijuana to his rich classmates and sleeps with Digger, his spit-fire "hipster" non-girlfriend. "She is NOT my girlfriend," Addison says of their relationship. "I would fight you for saying so. SHE would fight you for saying so." Instead, Addison says that he "[prefers] a life of free-ranging ... concubinage." Pretentious statements like this highlight some of Addison's less endearing qualities.
(05/18/10 2:00am)
I don't often tear up, but I cried while reading the last chapter of Dave Cullen's bestselling novel "Columbine" (2009), which was recently released in an expanded paperback edition. My own emotional reaction to the account of the 1999 Colorado school shooting is not altogether surprising, however, given Cullen's emotional approach to writing the book.
(05/12/10 2:00am)
The New York City-based hatmaker's success may come as a surprise to Dartmouth students, considering the dearth of fashion design courses on campus. Yet, according to Kim, her liberal arts education has only propelled her to further success.
(05/12/10 2:00am)
In the realm of cheesy titles, "Spoken From the Heart" really takes the cake. The title of former First Lady Laura Bush's newly-released autobiography is so awful I can't help but cringe. And the cover don't even get me started on the cover. Laura Bush's face, caked with excessive amounts of makeup, smiles creepily out at you her Mona-Lisa-like eyes seem as if they're always looking at you. Her wandering pupils are so realistic that I found myself expecting her to start talking to me like a painting from Hogwarts as I read.
(05/11/10 2:00am)
Back in 2007, when I first heard that Josh Schwartz creator and executive producer of Fox's "The O.C." would be in charge of producing a new television series based on the bestselling "Gossip Girl" teen novels, I was thrilled. Judge me if you will, but I'm not ashamed to say that I read the "Gossip Girl" books throughout my sophomore year of high school. Actually, I am kind of ashamed, but since I'm reviewing "Gossip Girl" and thus admitting I've seen every single episode I don't have much dignity left anyway.
(04/28/10 2:00am)
"Imperfect Birds," the newest novel from Anne Lamott, is, I'm sorry to say, a mom book. We all know the kind suited to a book club full of moms looking for some juicy source material to start a discussion about adolescent secrecy and substance abuse. While it's a fine read for moms, I wouldn't recommend it to most college students.
(04/14/10 2:00am)
Chances are that if you go to Dartmouth, you are connected to crew in some way or another. Perhaps you are a rower yourself, or you have a friend who you watch in bewilderment as they get up with the sunrise to attend their first but likely not only practice of the day. Susan Saint Sing's newest book, "The Eight: A Season in the Tradition of Harvard Crew," chronicles one season of the Harvard crew team and, in the process, explains why so many people are obsessed with this enigmatic sport.
(04/13/10 2:00am)
Taking place every Wednesday and Friday from 7-9 p.m., the Listening Room is One Wheelock's first long-term programming venture, according to Tanaka Mhambi '11, the main organizer behind the Listening Room. Advertising itself as "a brand new live music experience that brings together talented musicians from the Dartmouth and Hanover communities," the Listening Room will feature one student performer and one local performer each night, focusing on jazz and folk acts, with other musical styles thrown in occasionally, according to Mhambi.
(03/31/10 2:00am)
It's obvious from the very beginning of "Anthropology of an American Girl" that author Hilary Thayer Hamann understands growing up from a young woman's perspective.
(03/01/10 4:00am)
Sugarplum was founded in Fall 2009 by Casey Aylward '13 and Alexis Zavras '13. Every Tuesday, the group gathers at 5:30 p.m. to practice what Aylward describes as "a mix of contemporary ballet and jazz." Sugarplum's members select a range of tracks for their dances, from Michael Buble's jazzy "Home" to the high-energy hip hop of "That's Not My Name" by Ting Ting.
(02/24/10 4:00am)
I don't think the average person will like this book.
(02/10/10 4:00am)
On the inside cover of Leila Meacham's debut novel "Roses" (2010) the summary proclaims that the new novel "reads like a Texas Gone with the Wind.'"
(01/27/10 4:00am)
Reading Jonathan Dee's newest novel "The Privileges" (2010) feels like biting into really expensive, decadent chocolate. Like candy, his writing is addicting, deliciously sweet at times and bitingly tart at others. But beyond its compulsive readability, "The Privileges" is intelligent, substantial and worthwhile, as it questions our society's definition of success in a subtle but chilling way.
(01/13/10 4:00am)
We've all heard the story before. A troubled rich kid reads a little Thoreau in his 10th grade English class and rebels against his family's lifestyle by becoming (or at least trying to become) a hermit in the wilderness. On the surface, that's what David Guterson's newest novel, "The Other" (2008), is about.
(01/11/10 4:00am)
Taking over college campuses everywhere is the bro, a constantly drinking, womanizing machine with a trust fund. Now the bro has a website, called "Bros Like This Site," which, at press time, had reached its 100th post with "Hating Guidos." On the site (something of a rip-off of the already famous "Stuff White People Like"), nameless bros write posts about things other bros love, including "Calling Girls Sluts" and "Bar Crawls." The most-viewed entry presumably what bros like the most is "Birth Control Not Involving Condoms." How could such an offensive and politically incorrect site be so popular? For one thing, it's funny. But even more importantly, the bros on this site will no doubt sound eerily similar to some bro you know. Hint: he's probably living somewhere on Webster Ave. or Wheelock St.
(01/11/10 4:00am)
Miles Suter '11 and Adam Boardman '11 started to get tired of finding e-mails in their inboxes from friends asking for songs which, more often than not, the pair had just e-mailed to someone else. This simple problem caused them to create in a web site that today has a large and growing campus following Biggreenbeats.com.
(11/19/09 4:00am)
Full disclosure: I have a crush on Chuck Klosterman.
(11/11/09 4:00am)
Don't worry, be happy?
(11/04/09 4:00am)
A Nabokovian "Gossip Girl" that is refreshingly smart in how it is less about the labels and more about the lust exhibited by students and teachers, Joshua Gaylord's debut novel "Hummingbirds," which was released on Oct. 6, chronicles the "glowing daughters of the social elite" at Carmine-Casey, an all-girls school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
(10/14/09 2:00am)
What happens when you die? Why is there evil? If you had one day to live, what would you do?