June 2011
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Jun 29th
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A Time of Gifts
I just received that fine book, a reprint by New York Review of Books. Lauded as one of the best travel books ever written, it should be an enjoyable read! Review coming soon.
Jun 29th
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Summer Reading List
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes  A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles The Instructions by Adam Levin Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace The Greater Journey:  Americans in Paris by David McCullough Once Upon A River by Bonnie Jo Cambell How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher Orientation: And Other Stories by Daniel Orozco  The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by...
Jun 29th
Travel Reading
What is your favorite travel book?
Jun 29th
Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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“On Twitter, I probably follow too many people for it to be an efficient way to...”
– Joan Walsh, editor-at-large at Salon, lays out her media diet. Read the rest at The Atlantic Wire. (via theatlantic)
Jun 27th
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McNally Jackson Bookmongers: Philip Roth, on... →
Roth talking to Tina Brown in 2009: To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don’t read the novel really. So I think that kind of concentration and focus and attentiveness is hard to come by — it’s hard to find huge numbers of people, large numbers of people, significant numbers of people, who have...
Jun 27th
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Jun 27th
Listenwoodendreams: Bon Iver - Perth (Paper Tigers...
Jun 26th
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Jun 25th
“How much better is silence; the coffee-cup, the table. How much better to sit by...”
– Bernard in The Waves by Virginia Woolf. (via fuckyeahsolitude)
Jun 25th
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“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)
Jun 25th
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The lovely Ms. Dowd
While I regularly refer to Maureen Dowd, the esteemed op-ed columnist for the NYT, as elitist (which she is) and claim I’m too down-to-earth to read her (which I am), today’s column bashing Anthony Weiner, the shamed New York Congressman, is too good to pass up—really.   Ms. Dowd certainly has a way with words, and even if you completely disagree with her premise you’ll...
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