The Life and Times of Dennis Kucinich and the WTO
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William Olson
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Birthday
- June 19
- Company
- Welcomed
- Bio
- Author. I've sworn off the Fourth Estate and am earning interest on a giant trust fund. You can follow me on twitter, or you can get a life. /wto
MY RECENT POSTS
- 'The Mimic Men' by VS Naipaul,
A Review
November 10, 2010 12:24PM - The Pregnant Widow by Martin
Amis, A review
October 12, 2010 12:04AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Othella.
Free
this weekend at
iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.co
m/us/book/othella/id49…”
January 05, 2012 06:24PM - “Riotous! You're too
funny DN!”
October 31, 2011 12:00PM - “The only bone stimulants
are these scandalous
hotel
photos.”
May 06, 2011 10:34PM - “I love the story. But I
don't believe it. His ears
aren't
THAT big.”
November 10, 2010 12:37PM - “Brava. Rated.”
September 30, 2010 10:59AM
William Olson's Links
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NOVEMBER 10, 2010 12:31PM
'The Mimic Men' by VS Naipaul, A Review

A Review, by William Olson
'The Mimic Men' (Vintage Books, 1967)
The prose is fluid, the story spellbinding. I’ve never ripped through the final one hundred pages of a novel with more zeal. Ralph Singh, born Ranjit Kripalsingh, a political exile from hi… Read full post »
OCTOBER 12, 2010 12:20AM
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis, A review

Pedantic and didactic, it’s a tough pill to swallow. An aged man, late-fifties, recounts his youth. The opening act, Amis writes,
Torture: from L. torquere “to twist”. It was the opposite of torture, yet it twisted.
and in… Read full post »
William Olson's Favorites
Updates
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Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
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NATO Chicago Summit --- What if?
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Mad Men 5.10: "The Negron Complex"
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My Turn in the Jury Box
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Announcing the Salon-Alternet Investigative Fund
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"This American Life" offers Painful, Necessary Retraction
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End of an Era: The Symbolic Significance of KO's Departure
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Update on Braden: He Left the NICU and Is HOME
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