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Tom Carson


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Tom Carson is the author of Gilligan’s Wake, a New York Times Notable Book of The Year for 2003. Currently GQ’s “The Critic,” he won two National Magazine Awards for criticism as Esquire magazine’s “Screen” columnist and has been nominated two more times since then. He also won the CRMA criticism award for his book reviews in Los Angeles magazine.

Before that, he wrote extensively about pop culture and politics for the LA Weekly and the Village Voice, including an obituary for Richard Nixon in the latter that the late Norman Mailer termed “brilliant.” He has contributed over the years to publications ranging from Rolling Stone to the Atlantic Monthly. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Black Clock. His verse and other random writings ca
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Gilligan's Wake

3.75 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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Twisted Kicks

3.75 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions
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Daisy Buchanan's Daughter

3.03 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Carole Lombard's Plane

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“A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.”
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