Potter In Universities A Harry Subject
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Brad Neely's Wizard People, Dear Reader: Deconstructing Harry Potter and the Hero's Journey
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Paste Presents: The Harry Potter Takeover
It's been a dozen years since the first of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books debuted... read more
Lil Wayne is a Bullfrog: Paste Puts the Patronus Charm on Nine Musical Artists
In Harry Potter’s world, a patronus is an animal protector created by a spell. Harry’s patronus is a stag... read more
The Super-Impossible Brain-Busting Harry Potter Trivia Quiz
Think you're steeped in the wizard lore of the Harry Potter books? Think that you can recall the trivia and minutia of the Harry Potter universe... read more
Of Potter and Proust
Once this birthday passes, I’m sure I’ll be fine. I’m not usually susceptible to believing wild generalizations, but... read more
Harry Potter in the Paste Headlines
Don't know if you've heard of this Harry Potter guy or not, but he's kind of a big deal... read more
Eggers Together: The First-Ever Joint Interview with Dave and Toph Eggers
The cold stare of Dr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey dominates the cover... read more
The Paste 7 - May 09
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Emergent: Marc Fitten
The year’s best new European writer may very well be an American. He’s Marc Fitten, age 34. Born in Brooklyn to Panamanian parents and raised in Da Bronx... read more
Catching Up With...Watchmen illustrator Dave Gibbons
There's a tiny detail in one of the scenes from Watchmen that's indicative of the graphic novel's larger complexity... read more
Ben Greenman: Killing E-mail One Postcard at a Time
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The Best Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books and Games of 2008
Let’s be frank: any best-of list says more about the people who assembled it than it does about a particular year... read more
Signs of Life 2008: The Best Books We Read This Year
For the second consecutive year, Paste asked a constellation of authors to share with us the books they admired most in the past year. We offer their thoughts, musings and endorsements with no further prologue—after all, you’ve got some reading to do. ... read more
Dead Celebrity Author of the Month: Roberto Bolaño
Poet and novelist Roberto Bolaño wrote about strangulations, stabbings, rapes, drug deals, pistol-whippings and love gone wrong... read more
Chris Adrian: Word Doc
Chris Adrian has earned a B.A. in English from the University of Florida. He has an M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School. He’s earning a new degree in a pediatric hematology/oncology program in San Francisco. He’s two years from a degree from... read more
Catching Up With... Chuck Palahniuk
When a young Chuck Palahniuk pitched his novel Invisible Monsters to publishers, it was rejected because it was too disturbing. His response was to fill his next novel, Fight Club, with even more disturbing and violent events and dub himself a writer of “transgressional fiction”... read more
My History of Violence
When I was a cub reporter starting out at the Albuquerque Tribune, I found a report in the police blotter about a pair of 16-year-old lovers who gassed themselves in a car. I about choked on how great a story it was, did a little reporting, found out they did it in a... read more
Shock and Awww
We live in a brutal world. Violent, degrading and tragic events disturb everyday existence, just as they have since the dawn of time. Or as novelist Chuck Palahniuk puts it, “Crap has always happened, crap is happening and crap will continue to happen.” ... read more
Saša Stanišic: Magic in Motion
"There's nothing there. Just sheep and me." Saša Stanišic happily describes the Swiss setting where he's retreated to write. One can't blame him for seeking a quiet place. The war in Bosnia still rings in his ears... read more
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