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Danny Lanzetta is an an author and spoken word performer. His most recent novel is Gadfly. He is a professor of English and a former child actor. You can read more of his writings and rantings at dannylanzetta.com.

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Is Louie Closer to Literature Than TV?

(13) Comments | Posted September 4, 2012 | 10:40 AM

There's a scene in the middle of season two of Louie when Louis C.K. is walking through a flea market with Pamela (played by the wonderful Pamela Adlon), his off-again/off-again love interest, a woman who, by that time, has spent a significant portion of the show's 18 episodes telling our...

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In Defense of Jack Kerouac and Other Flawed Literature

(152) Comments | Posted August 17, 2012 | 1:40 PM

Jack Kerouac isn't very popular on the Internet this week. Despite Stephanie Nikolopoulus' claim in The Millions to the contrary, it isn't shocking that most women aren't enamored with Jack. Apotheosizing the grotesquely misogynistic Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarity of On the Road) into some sort of beatific saint...

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