After My Best Friend’s Death, I Became Convinced That Literature Didn’t Matter. Mary Gaitskill Changed My Mind.

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Why Elvis Is Our Most Iconic Celebrity Impression

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Why Do Some Impressions Offend, While Others Flatter?

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So You’re Doing an Impression. How Do You Decide What to Talk About?

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Why Dana Carvey’s George H.W. Bush Is the Best Impression of All Time

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Movie Titles In Decline: If Top Gun Came Out Today, It Would Be Called Two Hot Pilots

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Video-game ratings: My strange, brief career as an obscenity watchdog.

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Barry Hannah’s ecstatic fiction is gathered in Long, Last, Happy.

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On the overuse of exclamation points.

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