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Experimental Fiction At Its Finest — And Funniest

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Charles Yu is the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Third Class Superhero.

By Alan Cheuse

Experimental fiction in North America began with a genius of a doyen in Paris: Gertrude Stein, whose aesthetic assertion that writers shape and form and reform the medium of language the way sculptors work with stone, painters work with light and shape and composers work with sound, changed Hemingway forever and, thus, changed the nature of the American short story — or the American art story, at least.

6:03 am

Tue July 24, 2012

Best-Ever Teen Novels? Vote For Your Favorites

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By editor

Originally published on Tue August 7, 2012 9:40 am

Last month we asked you, our audience, to nominate titles for a top-100 list of the best young adult — YA — fiction ever written. Thousands of you sent in nominations. We've tabulated those suggestions and, with the help of an expert panel, narrowed the list to the 235 finalists you see below.

4:28 am

Tue July 24, 2012

Watch This: William Friedkin's Unlikely Inspirations

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William Friedkin, seen here in 2006, made his name in the '70s with movies like The French Connection.

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Citizen Kane was Orson Welles' first film and consistently tops lists as the best film of all time.

By editor

Originally published on Wed July 25, 2012 9:30 am

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4:31 pm

Mon July 23, 2012

YouTube Network Plays Well With Latino Audiences

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Designer Ximena Valero uses YouTube to get the word out on her signature transformable fashion, modeled here by Cindy Vela. She says joining the Latino lifestyle network Mitu will only help increase her exposure.

By Laura Sydell

Originally published on Mon July 23, 2012 6:04 pm

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Whenever 29-year-old Trina Hernandez and her family have questions, they all turn to the same place.

"YouTube is such a popular word in my family," she says, and that's not just with her husband and son. "With my mom, she has a question and she'll go to YouTube to search. And my aunts, they're like, 'Oh, did you watch that video on YouTube? Oh, look it up real quick.' "

3:41 pm

Mon July 23, 2012

Sandwich Monday: The All-American Burger

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With a couple slices of grilled bread, you can make even the most dangerous thing look innocuous in satellite photos.

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Ian cuts the sandwich into five healthy 1000 calorie bites.

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This isn't an action shot. "Blurry Hand" is one of the first symptoms of cheese overdose.

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By Ian Chillag

The Daniel family wrote in to recommend the All-American Burger from Saloon Steakhouse here in Chicago. We're not sure if they were recommending it because they thought we'd like it, or as a vicious plot to put us all in food comas, because as soon as we got to "burger between two grilled cheese sandwiches," we stopped reading and went to go get it.

Eva: It's so annoying whenever I hang out with burger, grilled cheese is ALWAYS there too.

Blythe: I feel like I'm just eating the entire kid's menu in one sandwich.

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