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Rewriting the heartland: "Fargo Rock City."
Fri, Oct 23 2009 1:30 PM

Chuck Klosterman's "Fargo Rock City" might be my favorite book about music, because it does the one thing great music writing should do: it sucks you in even if you don't care about the actual tunes at hand. In my case, I could care less about the collected musical legacies of Tesla and Cinderella, but Klosterman's book presents his beloved... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Election, Coming attractions, Alexander Payne, About Schmidt, Citizen Ruth, Chuck Klosterman, The Hold Steady, Talking Heads, Fargo Rock City

Dan Rather chooses "The Candidate."
Thu, Jul 31 2008 4:57 PM

Film in Focus has been gathering lists of five favorite films about political campaigns or, in some cases, just politics or politicians, from an array of political journalists including Katha Pollitt (on "Election": "People who hated Hillary Clinton compared her to Tracy, but that just shows they don't remember the movie very well, because... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: The Candidate, Katha Pollitt, Dan Rather, David Sirota, The Earrings de Madame de, Rick Perlstein, Election