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Chicago Reader interviews Bob Calhoun on Beer, Blood and Cornmeal

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The Chicago Reader (circulation: 122,000) published a feature article on Bob Calhoun’s book Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Strange Wrestling. In a story called "Pinning a Lion, Tortillas Flyin’" columnist Dan Kelly interviewed Calhoun in advance of his September 5th book signing at Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago. The story ran in the September 4th edition of the Chicago Reader. The Chicago Reader is a free alternative weekly.

Check out the full story online at: http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/ourtown/080904/

National Post profiles Paul McCarthy's Letterati

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The National Post, a Canadian national daily newspaper, published a few anecdotes from Letterati in their Saturday, July 12, 2008 edition. The piece can be read online at: http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=649432.

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More buzz for Burgess: Pontypool in Eye Weekly

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Check out Toronto's Eye Weekly for a cover story mentioning Pontypool Changes Everything, by Tony Burgess.

Jason Anderson wrote “[Pontypool Changes Everything] is full of hallucinatory violence and post-structuralist chicanery. This thoroughly deranged tome details the origins and effects of a virus that lies not in its victims’ blood but their words and minds. Imagine Roland Barthes’ version of the end of the world, and the set it in small-town Ontario.”

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