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Entries tagged with 'Tinsel'


Desperate housewives of Collin County

I was having drinks with a friend yesterday, and telling him about how fascinating I found "Tinsel," Hank Stuever's portrait of Christmas in Frisco. As I told my friend, it's a compulsively readable account of how compulsive materialism has come...

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Posted by Rod Dreher/Columnist on November 3, 2009 8:32 AM


"Tinsel" and a Collin County Christmas

Here's a YouTube trailer for Hank Stuever's new book "Tinsel," which should be hitting bookstores right about now. He spent three Christmases in Frisco, observing Christmas rituals and writing about them as a way to explore what Christmas means in...

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Posted by Rod Dreher/Columnist on October 27, 2009 2:15 PM

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