Word: discoverer
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But even if you could buy PYY in pill form, it might not work. The appetite is a complex system with many subtle triggers and controls. Remember leptin, the wonder hormone that seemed to make mice thin? A drug company paid tens of millions of dollars for the development rights...
Lethem is one of those novelists who get better book by book, from his early science-fiction noodlings to the hard-boiled, atmospheric Motherless Brooklyn. The Fortress of Solitude is a glorious, chaotic, raw novel, and God knows there are any number of ways to pick it apart. Lethem has...
NEOPS (short for neopunks) embrace the do-it-yourself ethos of punk as an alternative to mass production. They're the anti-Wal-Mart generation--progressive and experimental, emphasizing imperfection and originality over uniformity. A neop would rather discover a chair in a Dumpster than buy it at Pottery Barn...
By my second day of hanging with Evidente at the sale--of staring at cross-laced calves, of seeing tight snakeskin squeeze against an ankle, of telling women that even though the heel may be a little high to walk in all night, yes, I think it's worth it...
It's easy to underestimate graphic novels--after all, they look just like their less evolved forebears, comic books, and if that's not bad enough, they have been saddled with that awkward name. (Maybe it would help if we called them tragic books?) They get sold in comic-book...