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Swept under the rug no longer

By Matt Zakosek / November 7, 2008
Obama did not have to mention gay people in his first speech as president-elect. This gay person, for one, would have given him a pass, and I’m sure pundits from Andrew Sullivan to Perez Hilton would have followed suit. But he did mention us.

Harold and Kumar return, still stoned and savvy

By Matt Zakosek / April 24, 2008
[img id=”80528″ align=”alignleft”] With nothing but Gregg Araki’s surprisingly bleak Smiley Face to fill the stoner-movie void of late, the return of Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) to the big screen is especially welcome. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is every bit as entertaining, absurd, and subversively witty as 2004’s Harold...

Hostel influence can’t spoil Ruins’s B-movie charm

By Matt Zakosek / April 7, 2008
[img id=”80453″ align=”alignleft”] Thanks to the likes of Hostel and Saw, it seems every horror movie of the last four years has run on a surfeit of gore and a deficit of wit. The lone exception, Michael Haneke’s Funny Games—not technically a horror film—made up for its off-screen violence with unrelenting sadism. For audiences wary...

Requiem for Heath: a promising career cut short

By Matt Zakosek / January 29, 2008
Brokeback Mountain premiered in Chicago on December 12, 2005, at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema. Of course, opening days are usually crowded, and Brokeback Mountain was no different—but at one o’clock in the afternoon? By the start of the show, the theater was packed to the rafters, and the excitement in the air was palpable. We,...

Top Five Movies of 2007—Matt Zakosek

By Matt Zakosek / January 11, 2008
Starrbooty Director Mike Ruiz’s showcase of legendary drag performer RuPaul recalls the best of John Waters, David Lynch, or even Andy Warhol. Its political incorrectness stems not from a juvenile desire to shock, but from an exploration of race, gender, sexuality, and the ways we perceive them. As Special Agent Starrbooty, RuPaul catwalks away with...

Finding peace for all baseball, history buffs

By Matt Zakosek / May 11, 2007
Christina Kahrl (A.B. ’90) is not the kind of sportswriter who uses a lot of sports analogies. As managing editor of Baseball Prospectus, part of her job is motivating new writers for the statistical think-tank. It’s work she describes as a cross between a newspaper and a stage play, and she likens her role to...

Alum revisits Boy Culture at U of C

By Matt Zakosek / April 13, 2007
Matthew Rettenmund (A.B.’91) may not have the literary cachet of fellow alumnus Kurt Vonnegut (R.I.P.), but did Vonnegut ever write a “critical assessment of white, gay, male culture”? We think not. As the smash-hit film adaptation of his ’95 novel, Boy Culture, enters its second week at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Rettenmund takes the time...

Terabithia chooses character over action

By Matt Zakosek / February 16, 2007
Despite the wildly misleading trailers, Bridge to Terabithia is not another hyperkinetic, special effects–laden “adventure” for Generation ADD. Instead, it is a thoughtful, occasionally clunky family drama—more Stand by Me than Spy Kids—with fine performances by its teenage leads, Josh Hutcherson and AnnaSophia Robb. Of the two, Hutcherson (American Splendor) is slightly more effective as...

Does acclaimed Turkish film deserve chillier reception?

By Matt Zakosek / February 16, 2007
One of the least useful accusations that can be hurled at a film is that it is boring. “Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?” the novelist John Berger once asked. In recent years, I’ve defended Whale Rider and Lost in Translation against those whom—I’ll admit—I thought to be lacking...

Top 5 Films of 2006—Matt Zakosek

By Matt Zakosek / January 9, 2007
The Devil Wears Prada The summer’s frothiest treat features surprisingly sharp class commentary and a delicious lead performance by the infallible Ms. Streep. It’s one of the rare stories that improves in quality from the page to the screen (Lauren Weisberger’s unnecessarily catty 2003 bestseller will be best remembered for inspiring this film). As Streep’s...

Reeling rolls in its 25th anniversary year with diverse programming

By Matt Zakosek / November 3, 2006
Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival has come a long way, baby. The second-oldest queer film festival in the country (after San Francisco’s) turns 25 this year, and it is recognizing its roots with a smattering of experimental programming like the kind it showed “back in the day.” But more on that...

Lively Vic set showcase Ladytron’s best material

By Matt Zakosek / October 13, 2006
According to my friend Jules, a longtime Ladytron listener, the band’s latest effort, Witching Hour, is its best to date. The album puts the group in an enviable position: On their current tour, they can spotlight not only their most recent material but also their strongest. Their set at the Vic last Friday began (appropriately...

Foley’s real folly was staying in the closet

By Matt Zakosek / October 9, 2006
Leave it to a pornographer to make the most relevant point yet about the Mark Foley controversy. At his popular site DudeTube (dudetube.blogspot.com), “Matt”—no last names provided—writes the following about Foley: “I don’t want to get into some big examination of being in the public eye and being gay,” Matt writes. “What I have been...

Energetic Mars Volta set sends Aragon into orbit

By Matt Zakosek / October 1, 2006
In a perfect confluence of artist and venue, The Mars Volta took the stage at the Aragon last Friday night under a ceiling dappled with planets and constellations. Despite keeping the audience waiting nearly 45 minutes after their 7:30 p.m. start time (with no opening act to fill the gap), they made good on the...

Guggenheim and Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: good movie, great message

By Matt Zakosek / June 2, 2006
How does one begin to review An Inconvenient Truth—Davis Guggenheim’s new documentary about the perils of global warming, starring Al Gore—for its cinematic quality? It’s like evaluating Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush for its literary merit. That is to say, films that put general artistry before their message are usually the most effective...

Guggenheim and Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: good movie, great message

By Matt Zakosek / June 2, 2006
How does one begin to review An Inconvenient Truth—Davis Guggenheim’s new documentary about the perils of global warming, starring Al Gore—for its cinematic quality? It’s like evaluating Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush for its literary merit. That is to say, films that put general artistry before their message are usually the most effective...

Queers should shun Cheney, McGreevey

By Matt Zakosek / June 2, 2006
With the summer will come the publication of two opportunistic books aimed at the queer community—the Vice President’s daughter Mary Cheney’s Now It’s My Turn and disgraced ex–New Jersey governor James McGreevey’s The Confession. My fellow queers, I implore you: If you need to satisfy your morbid curiosity, take these books out of the library....

Sarah Waters needs to Watch out for new time periods, too many characters

By Matt Zakosek / May 26, 2006
Sarah Waters is one of our best contemporary novelists. From the eerie Affinity to the rollicking Tipping the Velvet to the superlative Fingersmith, not one of her books has disappointed…until now. The Night Watch is slow, ponderous, and unoriginal; the plot not nearly involving enough to merit the 446 pages Waters allots it. This just...

Sarah Waters needs to Watch out for new time periods, too many characters

By Matt Zakosek / May 26, 2006
Sarah Waters is one of our best contemporary novelists. From the eerie Affinity to the rollicking Tipping the Velvet to the superlative Fingersmith, not one of her books has disappointed…until now. The Night Watch is slow, ponderous, and unoriginal; the plot not nearly involving enough to merit the 446 pages Waters allots it. This just...

Gore urges us to accept An Inconvenient Truth

By Matt Zakosek / May 9, 2006
Al Gore is a Diet Coke drinker. He was also running late, and as I waited in his suite at the Four Seasons to interview him last Thursday morning, his assistant had thoughtfully provided him with a bottle of Diet Coke and a glass of ice. But by the time he arrived—just 15 minutes after...

Gore urges us to accept An Inconvenient Truth

By Matt Zakosek / May 9, 2006
Al Gore is a Diet Coke drinker. He was also running late, and as I waited in his suite at the Four Seasons to interview him last Thursday morning, his assistant had thoughtfully provided him with a bottle of Diet Coke and a glass of ice. But by the time he arrived—just 15 minutes after...

MAB announces lineup for Summer Breeze

By Matt Zakosek / May 5, 2006
George Clinton will headline the Major Activities Board (MAB) Summer Breeze concert to be held Saturday, May 20 in Hutchinson Courtyard. Hip-hop artist RJD2 and folk singer Dar Williams will also perform. The acts were announced at the Hype event “An Evening of Art” last night at the Museum of Contemporary Art. George Clinton, by...

Despite contrivances, these Boots were made for watching

By Matt Zakosek / April 28, 2006
In the proud tradition of twee British comedies—like January’s Imagine Me and You—comes Kinky Boots, the story of Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton), a reluctant businessman who must save his father’s shoe factory from financial ruin by making specialty heels for drag queens. It sounds like an impossibly cutesy premise for a movie, and it kind...

Director Jason Reitman discusses his controversial Thank You for Smoking

By Matt Zakosek / April 4, 2006
Director Jason Reitman is someone who deserves our respect, even if we can’t entirely believe him—much like the shady tobacco lobbyist in his current satire, Thank You for Smoking. I interviewed Reitman in his room on the twelfth floor of downtown Chicago’s Ritz Carlton with two other college journalists. Not surprisingly, the first question anyone...

Thank You for Smoking sets tobacco culture ablaze

By Matt Zakosek / March 31, 2006
Nick Naylor is scum. As embodied by Aaron Eckhart—somewhere between his saintly boyfriend from Erin Brockovich and walking personification of evil from In the Company of Men—the guy is pleasant enough company for an hour and a half, but you’re not going to remember much of him once the final credits roll. Naylor is a...

New Chappelle doc shows Davey from the Block

By Matt Zakosek / March 7, 2006
Even with two jokes about an industrious prostitute and a man with an incredibly short penis, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party is surprisingly short on the one-liners. What it has in spades is a completely unexpected sentimentality. With direction by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’s Michel Gondry, it just may turn out to be the...

MAB brings Jeff Tweedy to Mandel

By Matt Zakosek / February 14, 2006
In a little less than two weeks, a crooner will come to Mandel Hall to try to break our hearts. If you don’t understand that reference, you soon will. Phrases like “American aquarium drinker” and “tongued-tied lightning” will also enter your lexicon, because the Major Activities Board (MAB) announced Monday that Jeff Tweedy is coming...

Brokeback finds audiences in both the city and suburbs

By Matt Zakosek / January 26, 2006
“A lot of people who voted for Bush are going to love [Brokeback Mountain],” film producer James Schamus prophesized in Entertainment Weekly. It looks like he was right. I’ve seen Brokeback three times—the first two times at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema here in Chicago, and the third at AMC Cantera 30 in Warrenville, Illinois. I...

New sado-thrillers defile the legacy of horror films—and cheat audiences

By Matt Zakosek / January 13, 2006
What’s with the new breed of sado-thrillers? It seems every week there’s a new example of extreme violence at the local cineplex: the Saw films, Hostel (which debuted at number one with $20.1 million at the box office), Wolf Creek, High Tension, Chaos, the Texas Chain Saw Massacre remake, and the Rob Zombie slashers (House...

Bohemia lives in Columbus’s shockingly strong Rent

By Matt Zakosek / November 29, 2005
Why would anyone—even the director of Home Alone and the first two Harry Potter movies—open Rent with the song “Seasons of Love”? In the musical, “Seasons of Love” opens Act Two, and for good reason. Easily the most maudlin number in the entire production, one almost needs the buffer of an intermission to believe it’s...

Madonna’s Confession: My new album could be so much more

By Matt Zakosek / November 22, 2005
People will dance to anything with Madonna’s name slapped on it. And by “people,” I mean “gay men.” This is the woman who changed the face of commercial radio. She reintroduced show tunes to the Top 40 with “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”; made us all dance along to a song about a woman considering...

With Lunar Park, Ellis swaps hubris for humanity

By Matt Zakosek / September 13, 2005
Why is Bret Easton Ellis famous? At the age of 20, he published a novel called Less Than Zero, which was supposed to be an indictment of his rich Beverly Hills friends and how they were nothing more than shallow, empty vessels. The characters in this book prostitute themselves to support their cocaine habits and...

Voices Classics: Phair moved from suburbs to rock glory with Exile

By Matt Zakosek / June 3, 2005
Almost nothing you’ve heard about Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville is of any consequence. Critics like to zero in on two details: the album’s structure, which Phair bravely patterned after the Rolling Stones’s Exile on Main St., and its frank sexuality, which is often disparaged by critics—despite its liberating effect on her music. (If I...

MAB announces Summer Breeze acts

By Matt Zakosek / May 3, 2005
The Major Activities Board (MAB) decided this year’s Summer Breeze show will feature Julie Roberts, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and Nas. The show will be held in Hutchinson Courtyard at 6 p.m., and doors will open at 5 p.m. First act Julie Roberts is a country singer whose self-titled debut garnered praise from Vanity...

Solondz’s Palindromes is a work of outrage—and art

By Matt Zakosek / April 28, 2005
It’s a real testament to Todd Solondz’s filmmaking genius that I loved his latest, Palindromes (opening today at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema), because the first thing we see onscreen in the movie is a title card reading “In loving memory of Dawn Wiener.” Who is Dawn Wiener? Only my favorite character from the cinema...

Hot Hot Heat serve up Elevator music rather than remake the Breakdown

By Matt Zakosek / April 14, 2005
When my ex-roommate first heard the Hot Hot Heat song “Bandages” on the radio, he thought the line was actually “Ban the Jews.” “I thought that was kind of weird,” he said. On the strength of that single and the song “Goddamnit” (which should have been a single), Hot Hot Heat’s Make Up the Breakdown...

Grey’s Anatomy refuses to see the world in simple black and white

By Matt Zakosek / April 12, 2005
So who’s been watching Grey’s Anatomy? Probably a lot of people, because it comes on right after Desperate Housewives, and most of us are too lazy to get up and change the channel. But Grey’s Anatomy is a good little show in its own right—smart, funny, and touching without being too ambitious. It’s like ER,...

New films prove sex sells, but think twice before giving them your money

By Matt Zakosek / March 4, 2005
Oscars or porn? This was the dilemma I faced last Saturday afternoon at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema. Did I want to see Born Into Brothels—the examination of children born in Calcutta’s red light district that would go on to win an Oscar roughly 24 hours later—or Inside Deep Throat, an insider’s look at 1972’s Deep...

Shortcut – Plain White T’s

By Matt Zakosek / February 4, 2005
Fans of generic pop-punk will find plenty to embrace in All That We Needed, the latest CD from Chicago boys the Plain White T’s. The disc begins promisingly enough with the title song, then works its way through 12 catchy—if forgettable—similar-sounding tracks. The only exception is “What More Do You Want?,” which has a riff...

Third time not the charm for Brashares’ Pants

By Matt Zakosek / January 25, 2005
Now that Sex and the City has drained its last cosmopolitan, where can fans of smart, savvy entertainment go for their fix of stories about the trials and tribulations of four girlfriends? Why, to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, of course! Don’t let the young adult trappings fool you. These novels can be...

Santa brings three great films, one lump of coal

By Matt Zakosek / January 7, 2005
A recurring theme of my winter break was the enjoyment of films I hadn’t even wanted to see. It’s hard to argue with the friend who insists on buying the tickets, and since my friend Sam has taste much different from mine, I had to pass up a few first choices with comments that could...

Examining Church and State through film

By Matt Zakosek / November 30, 2004
It’s often said that two things one should never discuss in polite conversation are religion and politics. Well, that old adage is suddenly a lot easier to remember, because for the first time in recent history, religion and politics are becoming inextricably linked. Don’t be fooled by the declining ratings for CBS’ Joan of Arcadia—whether...

Lack of complexity makes Kinsey a flaccid biopic

By Matt Zakosek / November 21, 2004
It’s almost impossible for me to review Kinsey the same way I would have last year. Before this summer, the only exposure I had to Dr. Kinsey and his infamous research methods were a few furtive peeks through my parents’ copy of his controversial 1948 tome, Sexual Behavior of the Human Male. (I’m not sure...

Playboy receives comeuppance in tepid remake

By Matt Zakosek / October 27, 2004
When an actor speaks directly to the camera, it’s known as “breaking the fourth wall.” Breaking the fourth wall can be an engaging, albeit unconventional, way to interact with the audience. The problem is that very few actors manage to do it well. The only two I can think of off the top of my...

A shocking thing about Manson CD: It doesn’t suck

By Matt Zakosek / October 17, 2004
That Marilyn Manson sure knows how to get your ears bleeding. While I can within good conscience recommend his latest disc, Lest We Forget: The Best of, only the most supremely masochistic would attempt to get through it in one sitting. Which is fitting, because this surely constitutes a wide portion of Manson’s fan base:...

New Waters flick gives bad taste a bad name

By Matt Zakosek / October 6, 2004
Hey, guess what? Sex can be boring. No one should know this better than John Waters, the legendary shock auteur behind such pieces of filth as Pink Flamingoes and (my personal favorite) Serial Mom. Waters has cultivated a modest reputation as an interesting independent filmmaker, someone who can occasionally craft absorbing situations and characters while...

Matt picks the best (and worst) movies of the summer

By Matt Zakosek / October 2, 2004
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. There were plenty of great films worth their weight in popcorn consumption this summer. On the flip side, though, there were a few so horrible that they almost made staying at home and watching reality TV sound enticing. It managed to be a...

Becky Sharp is regally bland in Mira Nair’s eastern take on Vanity Fair

By Matt Zakosek / September 18, 2004
Finally, some truth in advertising. Vanity Fair does prove to be the perfect vehicle for megastar Reese Witherspoon…just probably not in the way the filmmakers intended. If this is, as some of the ads have touted, “the performance of her career,” it’s indicative of a career that has gotten less and less impressive as her...

Saved! asks WWJD: What Would Jena Do?

By Matt Zakosek / June 8, 2004
I’m so glad Saved! came out the same year as The Passion of the Christ. I’m not one of those people who vehemently hated The Passion. Oddly enough, I had the same reaction to it that I had to Kill Bill: Vol. 2. Both films are mostly a waste of time, but there are a...

Would you like fries with that? Spurlock speaks

By Matt Zakosek / May 18, 2004
I’m always afraid before I meet someone in the film industry. This is because I want to be in the film industry so badly that I’m afraid I’ll scream, “I love you sooooo much!” before beaning the filmmaker over the head with my unproduced screenplay. I shouldn’t have worried about meeting Morgan Spurlock, winner of...

New documentary is a Super Size success

By Matt Zakosek / May 11, 2004
There’s a moment in Super Size Me—Morgan Spurlock’s new documentary detailing the evils of the Big Mac—when I sat back in my seat and whispered, “That’s the new Michael Moore.” No, scratch that; I didn’t actually whisper. That duty belonged to the rather rude journalist who sat next to me at the critic’s screening, an...

Revolutionary Rent brings la vie boheme from Broadway to Chicago

By Matt Zakosek / May 7, 2004
The history of Rent is one of Broadway’s strangest stories. Its creator, Jonathan Larson, died the morning of Rent’s final dress rehearsal, 10 days shy of his 36th birthday—not of HIV-related complications, as many believe, but of an aortic aneurysm. For a few years after its 1996 debut, Rent was unimpeachably cool. Theater critics raved,...

Remake of horror classic is fresh out of brains

By Matt Zakosek / April 2, 2004
As a film critic, there are certain rules I obey to maintain the integrity of my craft. Obviously I silence my cell phone when I enter the theater; sometimes I take notes; and, knowing how important it is for the audience to remain captive under the filmmaker’s spell, I try to refrain from talking. However,...

Remake of horror classic is fresh out of brains

By Matt Zakosek / April 2, 2004
As a film critic, there are certain rules I obey to maintain the integrity of my craft. Obviously I silence my cell phone when I enter the theater; sometimes I take notes; and, knowing how important it is for the audience to remain captive under the filmmaker’s spell, I try to refrain from talking. However,...

Oscars: root for Robbins, keep your fingers crossed for Castle-Hughes

By Matt Zakosek / February 27, 2004
By this point, you’ve probably read an infinite number of articles about the 76th Annual Academy Awards. That is, if you care at all. Well, I’m not going to offer any fancy odds or pretend that there won’t be any surprises. Instead, I’ll simply explain who I think will win, who I think should win,...

Delirium Records channels Madonna with mixed-bag collection of covers

By Matt Zakosek / February 20, 2004
As the biggest fan of Madonna who has never actually stalked her, I usually feel that the less said about remakes of her effervescent pop tunes, the better. Madhouse’s “Like a Prayer” was a modest hit, receiving play on some urban dance stations, but its relentless techno beat flattened the emotion of the original. Teenage...

Timberlake makes a boob of himself during Super Bowl halftime show performance

By Matt Zakosek / February 3, 2004
“I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance of the Super Bowl,” Justin Timberlake said regarding his controversial removal of part of Janet Jackson’s top during Monday evening’s Patriots-Panthers game. “It was not intentional and is regrettable.” Wardrobe malfunction? One wonders what Timberlake was trying to remove—her wig?...

Pop princess Spears to Material Mom: “Kiss me, baby, one more time”

By Matt Zakosek / January 30, 2004
Oops…she did it again. After pretending to marry Madonna at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears jetted off to Las Vegas with childhood friend Jason Alexander and got married…for real. Chicago’s RedEye ran a photo of bridal Britney—clad in gown and veil—on its front cover, obscuring the fact that this was a picture...

Margaret Cho discusses Britney, Justin, and those White House galas

By Matt Zakosek / January 13, 2004
The jacket of Margaret Cho’s popular 2001 memoir, I’m the One That I Want, describes her as a “comedian, icon, TV star, Hollywood casualty” and, finally, “fag-hag.” Mara Stankiewicz and Matt Zakosek, Voices co-editors, discovered even more sides of her when they sat down for an interview after her Saturday night concert. Here are a...

Burton’s Big Fish provides plenty to carp about

By Matt Zakosek / January 11, 2004
Big Fish seems to have lots to offer, riding into movie theaters on a wave of prestige. Six-time Oscar nominee Albert Finney portrays a dying patriarch; Ewan MacGregor hams it up in a role almost as showy as that of his love-stricken artist in Moulin Rouge; and Helena Bonham Carter tries to make us forget...

Putting the B.S. back in CBS

By Matt Zakosek / November 18, 2003
Earlier this month—Election Day—CBS CEO-Chairman Leslie Moonves cancelled The Reagans, an allegedly inflammatory made-for-TV biopic about the former First Family that was supposed to air during November sweeps. I say “allegedly” because its conservative critics managed to condemn the movie without even watching it. Their first complaint about the film was perhaps the most ludicrous....

Amanda Geppert talks film festivals, parties on Kimbark, and Guinness

By Matt Zakosek / November 6, 2003
Judging from our first phone conversation, I knew Amanda Geppert (A.B. ’95) was going to be cool. The reason? When we were discussing Goldfish Memory, my current favorite from the 22nd annual Reeling Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival, she explained why she didn’t like the blurb describing the movie in the program: “This...

Homosexual filmmakers deal with AIDS, female musicians, and relationships

By Matt Zakosek / November 3, 2003
Documentaries are not for everyone. It’s a rare few that garner critical acclaim, like Capturing the Friedmans, and even fewer that captivate the public’s imagination, like Hoop Dreams. But I’ve never described a documentary to a friend before and been stopped with the incredulous question, “Are you joking?” Such is the case with The Gift,...

Dennis and Sharon to Dorff: Won’t you be my neighbor?

By Matt Zakosek / October 6, 2003
Snakes! If I had to summarize Cold Creek Manor in just one word, that word would be “snakes.” Not “good,” not “lousy,” just…snakes. Luckily, I have 800 words, so I can tell you that while this is a pretty generic action-thriller, there is one terrifying sequence that is worth the cost of admission alone. Not...

A time to kill

By Matt Zakosek / August 21, 2003
I had some fun experiences with the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the Thirteenth franchises when I was growing up. My cousin Doug and I used to scare ourselves silly watching the movies. This was, of course, after I was cured of my aversion to them, when my older sister sat on me and...

Sextet and the city

By Matt Zakosek / July 10, 2003
I’ve always maintained that the best part of HBO’s Sex and the City is neither the sex nor the city but the friendship among the four main characters. By that standard, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez’s The Dirty Girls Social Club immediately ups the ante, because this debut novel is about six sassy girlfriends. There’s Lauren, the epicenter...
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