Lizzie Stark is a freelance journalist who has written for the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily Beast. She also edits the lit-mag Fringe and is at work on a narrative nonfiction book about Live Action Role Play, or LARP.

Haute McNuggets

Haute McNuggets

Beef bourguignon from a Whopper? Foie gras from a Nathan's hot dog? Farfalle from a Subway footlong? Meet the magicia...

Posted 9:24 PM | Sep 29, 2009
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jerk

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jerk

In Eric Bogosian's new novel, he conjures a young writer who seems oddly like the author of Talk Radio. Bogosian tal...

Posted 7:14 AM | May 5, 2009
Tom Robbins Meets the Beer Fairy

Tom Robbins Meets the Beer Fairy

From the subversive mind of novelist Tom Robbins comes a children's book about... beer? Yes, it's a bedtime story wit...

Posted 7:35 AM | Apr 28, 2009
Call Him Dirty Harry Potter

Call Him Dirty Harry Potter

Wizards, beware! Jim Butcher's detective Harry Dresden is the new scourge of the underworld, and he's packing heat. A...

Posted 6:47 AM | Apr 8, 2009