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Of course, a clutch of genre-defining novels isn't quite the same artistic achievement as an album that smells like a cat lady.
Sour Notes On Stage Andy Beta 2011
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If you have not read this genre-defining ten-book series, I cannot recommend it highly enough, especially in the reprinted Harper-Collins edition.
Book review Maxine 2009
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If you had to include one quintessential story in the genre-defining anthology of steampunk, this would be a good choice: it covers all the bases, and is unpretentious enough to fill most stomachs hungry for a quick meal of the Victorian Bizarre.
"Steampunk" Anthology, Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer 2009
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Jamie O'Shea, for ten years editor of the genre-defining visionary arts magazine, Juxtapoz, probably the largest circulated art monthly in the world -- I mean, hey, they sell it at Whole Foods -- is now an internationally known creative director and the editor of a new online blog called SuperTouch.
Boing Boing 2009
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Of course, a clutch of genre-defining novels isn't quite the same artistic achievement as an album that smells like a cat lady.
Sour Notes On Stage Andy Beta 2011
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But the genre-defining high point of the form came with Johann Hari's 'The Dark Side of Dubai' for The Independent, which delivered the memorable insult: 'this is a city built from nothing in a few wild decades of credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery.'
Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Abandoned Cars and Memories of a Bashing Rory Hyde 2010
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Impress a date with your creativity, take a friend or go exploring solo: Akira Kurosawa's genre-defining film "Rashomon" and photographs of skateboarding at night and Argentina's national parks top our list of the coolest free events of the week.
Free and easy events: 'Rashomon,' skateboarding in art Alex Baldinger 2010
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For your amusement, Maul's genre-defining work is available below.
Daddy Issues apexdigest 2008
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But where Mark Kurlansky's genre-defining fish treatise Cod left off at the "bust" of commercial fisheries, Greenberg ventures into the little-known world of iconoclast fish breeders, genetic tinkerers and artisanal fishermen.
Peter Hanlon: Fish as Food, Fish as Wildlife: Four Fish (a Book Review) 2010
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But the genre-defining high point of the form came with Johann Hari's 'The Dark Side of Dubai' for The Independent, which delivered the memorable insult: 'this is a city built from nothing in a few wild decades of credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery.'
Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Abandoned Cars and Memories of a Bashing 2010
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