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05/31/07
We hope you enjoy the latest update of the HBC. It’s bigger than usual, so take your time and let us know what you think.
We’ve also partnered with Powell’s and Amazon, so please support the HBC by clicking on our links before you blow your paychecks on new books.
05/01/07
Update #3 is here! Check out our reviews and let us know what you think.
04/02/07
After being temporarily thwarted by the internet gods, Issue #2 is up! Special thanks to Manoli Yiannakakis for helping Yennie keep her sanity.
03/01/07
Welcome to the Hipster Book Club! This is our first issue, so we haven’t much at the moment, and we’re still working out the kinks. Take a look around, have a good time, and tell us what you think.
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Comics
and Graphic Novels
In
this update of the HBC, we reminisce about our histories
with superheroes, confess our fake crushes on cartoon
aardvarks, and review a few of our favorite graphic
novels and comic-related books.
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 RANT:
AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF BUSTER CASEY
By CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Reviewed by John Aramini
The humor
is black, the storytelling is circular, and the prose is terse
and studded with profanity and scatology; jokes revolving
around boogers or used maxi-pads are not above Palahniuk.
[Full review]
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 EEEEE
EEE EEEE & BED
By TAO LIN
Reviewed by Jen Penkethman
Tao Lin
is an incredibly sarcastic writer—someone who can make
Dave Eggers & Co. look like earnest, Disney-fied Boy Scouts.
[Full
review]
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| FEATURES |
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TRUE
LIFE TALES OF FANDOM, PORNOGRAPHY, AND ATTEMPTED VIOLENCE!
Kyle reflects upon a childhood spent reading about superheroes
and an adulthood doing practically the same thing.
[Full
story]
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LETTERS
FROM THE EDITORS
Kyle and Yennie write their first letter together, and all
they can think about are superheroes in tights.
[Full
story]
THE INFLUENCE
OF ANXIETY
Cerebus ushers Dorothy into comic book fandom notoriety...by
pissing off feminists.
[Full
story]
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