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Monthly Archives for February 2010

It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.

Reality Television and the Meaning of Things

Last month was the 25th anniversary of Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Eight years ago, I was teaching the book in one of my classes and thinking about reality television, still a relatively new field at the time, and I wrote the following essay.

Looking Through the Lens of Surf Culture

It’s hard not to note that this kind of attraction would never have taken root in the surfing-stubborn nineties, where conformity dictated that everyone at the beach rode three-finned shortboards.