CHRIS LOCHERY

McSweeney’s Small Chair: The Literary Pick of 2009

14th December 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

McSweeney’s has long been known for its innovation and imagination in an age-old and well-established industry, and subscribers to their flagship publication, Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, will already know what forms this imagination can take.

For example, Issue 17 of this inventive literary journal came disguised as a bunch of post - stories, essays and other curiosities were presented as a series of letters, envelopes, magazines and junk mail circulars. Issue...

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The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

26th October 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Mormonism has a lot to thank Scientology for.

Ever since Tom Cruise decided to bounce up and down on Oprah's sofa, the Mormons - once the butt of pretty much every religious joke going - have now found themselves almost wholly guarded from comic crossfire by the Scientologists. In fact, the only person who is still making jokes at the expense of Mormonism in 2009 is Elna Baker.

This is not to say...

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Five Alternatives To Dan Brown’s New Book

8th September 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

With Dan Brown’s long awaited novel, The Lost Symbol, due to be published later this month, there is a very good chance that any conversation about books for the rest of this year will be derailed by the inevitable series of questions: “Ooh, have you read The Lost Symbol yet?”, “How far are you in?”, “Have you found out that such and such is a member of blah blah blah...?”

Destined...

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