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Author: Melinda Lewis

Melinda Lewis has a PhD in American Culture Studies. She knows more celebrity gossip than basic math and watches too much television.
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07/08/2024

A (Stone Cold) Stunner of a Picture

An Interview with Pedro Vasquez about his wrestling drama, Slow Dancing with Your Demons

by Melinda Lewis

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03/01/2024

‘Tis the (Oscar) Season

Hollywood posturing in real time

by Melinda Lewis

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12/15/2021

Pretty Much Your Standard In Memoriam

Remembering Mike Nesmith

by Melinda Lewis

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04/08/2021

Haunted Memories, Sifted Dreams

An interview with Night Rooms writer, Gina Nutt

by Melinda Lewis

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01/11/2019

Lost Time

A review of Shannon Withycombe’s Lost

by Melinda Lewis

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12/21/2018

Out of Thin Hair

An interview with writer and historian, Robert McCracken Peck

by Melinda Lewis

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12/14/2018

An Open Bookstore

Talking with the owners of A Novel Idea

by Melinda Lewis

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11/30/2018

Subverting Seduction

A review of Karina Longworth’s Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom

by Melinda Lewis

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11/02/2018

Kindred Spirits

A review of Hugh Ambrose’s Liberated Spirits

by Melinda Lewis

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09/20/2018

At the Crossroads

A review of June Eric-Udorie’s Can We All Be Feminists?

by Melinda Lewis

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