Dating Confessions
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"Determining the severity of your commitment with your partner based on their Facebook or Myspace relationship status is like using a fortune cookie to select your career. Confucius say: Stupid."
Id in Plain Sight A new book asks, can sex be so good that it's bad for you? /books/ By Joseph Lazauskas.
Girls, Girls, Girls Everyone thinks they know Lolita. A new book says we're wrong. /books/ By Meghan Pleticha.
Cheesecake Factory Author David Henry Sterry recalls his stint as the roller-skating MC of Chippendales. /books/ By James Brady Ryan.
Dirty Old Town The author of 1972's cult-classic Motorman delivers his most twisted effort yet. /books/ By Will Doig.
Very, Very Graphic Designer Stefan Sagmeister says cutting himself is less painful than designing album covers for Aerosmith. THE DESIGN ISSUE By Suzanne LaBarre.
High-Alert Holiday A husband and wife spend their vacation poking around America's nuclear arsenal. /books/ By Will Doig.
Children of the Grave The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle transforms Black Sabbath into fiction. /books/ By Peter Smith.
The Nerve Date This week: Climbing trees with Stacey. /photography/ By Dave Naz.
Desert Island Willy Vlautin's Reno is America without the apple pie. /books/ By Will Doig.
The Dandy Man Can Sebastian Horsley, lover of punk rock and Francis Bacon, gets deported for "moral turpitude." /books/ By Alexandra Godfrey.
New York's Finest In his new book, Richard Price turns a crime-scene canvas into a work of art. /books/ By Will Doig.
Live Journal An eighty-year-old diary found in a New York dumpster tells the story of a life misplaced. /books/ By Will Doig.
Yesterday's Paper A former librarian interviews an author who says books are obsolete. /books/ By Caitlin MacRae.
Crowd Control A new book makes the case that today's angry mobs are good agents of change. /books/ By Will Doig.
Cover Girl A new novel composed entirely of women's-magazine text blurs the line between content and form. /books/ By Will Doig.