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INSIDE! October 2013
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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 12
F R E E
NEW AND OF INTEREST
C H E C K
Children of the Jacaranda Tree Pollen and dust page 5
Whistle in the Dark
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A good day above ground page 8
Impossible Monsters
O U T
Things that go bump in the night and the daylight page 11
Secret Lives of Baked Goods
Doomed
By Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday, $24.95, 288 pages
Attend Chuck Palahniuk’s Pajama Party for Adults on Oct. 8 Details on Page 16
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Readers acquainted with Palahniuk will instantly recognize his signature style. His novels, beginning with his debut Survivor to his indictment of celebrity worship in Tell All, runneth over with caustic deadpan narration, morally bankrupt characters and impending doom. Where he might be accused of lacking finesse, he makes up for it with white-knuckled rides careening through landscapes of degradation and excess. Although a few of his antisocial fantasies of ruin have offended stodgier critics, his le-
gions of fans keep his novels lodged firmly on the bestseller list. Doomed picks up where Damned left off. Madison, our 13 year-old hero, having navigated her way through hell — a terrain of toenail clipping mountains and rivers of scalding hot barf, populated by telemarketers and other undesireables — makes her way back to Earth as a ghost or a “post alive” being. The narrative alternates between her present mission of saving humanity from See Doomed, cont’d on page 11
Stories about and recipes for your favorite desserts page 13
The Human Spark A study of children’s early development page 14
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