July 2011
14 posts
Coffee
Wake up.
Grind.
Brew.
Drink—drink it ‘til your sick.
Hemingway: What a boss!
scribnerbooks:
“You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”
“It sounds like a swell life,” I said.
—Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Politicalprof: A Difference Between the UK and the... →
politicalprof:
In the “it couldn’t happen in the US” file …
If anyone watched the Murdoch hearing through to the end, yesterday, among the final questioners was Louise Mensch. (She was the one doing the questioning when the idiot turned Rupert Murdoch into a sympathetic figure—and his wife into a hero—by…
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Lapham's Quarterly: "Food": The Complete Reading... →
laphamsquarterly:
There’s nothing more we love around here than a real long list of books, and for our Food issue we decided to take it to the next level with this list of all the books the editors of LQ used in our Summer issue. How many have you read?
The Ancient World The Bible Life of…
