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Philip Roth Aint's Gonna Win This One

by Max Ross
posted on Oct. 02, 2008 - 12:52pm

And Horace Engdahl, top member of the award jury for the Nobel Prize in Literature, was all like, "You can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the center of the literary world ... not the United States...The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature.

Hail to the Bus Driver

by Max Ross
posted on Aug. 26, 2008 - 1:46pm

When I was in third grade, my school bus driver was named ‘Slice,' and he was the coolest. His hair was blond and spiked, held in place by gravity-resistant gel. In the front seat - where not even the nerdiest of nerds dared sit - he kept a Styrofoam container filled with icepacks and cans of orange Slice soda, which he sold for twenty-five cents, instead of the usual pop machine fifty.
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