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The Noise and the Hurry
A Penn prof's latest book puts Philly nightlife's stress and swagger under the microscope.
by A.D. Amorosi
"I sometimes think we'd all just be better off dressing down, and stop trying so hard to be hip. Having fun should be way more fun than this."

Concerted Effort
A Philly poet writes up real life and rock shows in his debut collection.
by Sam Tremble
"I like the potential for what happens when I go to any concert ... I'm dancing my ass off, I'm totally in it and for some reason it just makes me think."

Reading Rainbow
Rounding up the season's best author events.
by Carolyn Huckabay
Dave Eggers | Trudy Rubin | Julie Buxbaum | Scott Heim | Chinua Achebe | Arlen Specter | Chris Coste | Richard Price | Samantha Power | Theodore Harris | Brian Hall | Michael Eric Dyson | Tobias Wolff | Paul Martin | Jhumpa Lahiri


All Anthologies
New additions to the short-story short list
by Patrick Rapa
Unaccustomed Earth | Knockemstiff | Dangerous Laughter | I Love Dollars | Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories | The View From the Seventh Layer

Non-Fiction
Must-haves for the non-fiction fan
Black Postcards | So Wrong for So Long | The McSweeney's Joke Book of Jokes | Why We're Liberals | The Fortune Cookie Chronicles | The Great Derangment | Armageddon in Retrospect | Sephora


Fiction
Finds for fiction freaks
The Rain Before It Falls | Arkansas | Lush Life | We Disappear | In Hoboken | Skim | Deviant Behavior | Wild Nights! About the Last Days of Poe, Dickenson, Twain, James and Hemingway | The White Tiger | Boy A