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From Stephen Elliott
“The number of books I buy while sober is, I have noticed, inversely proportional to the number I buy while drunk. It’s a zero-sum game, as Proust once observed of wet dreams: when all the resources are consumed in the night, none are left for waking life.”
Elif Batuman on the joys and perils of book-buying while intoxicated.
...more“Alcohol in moderation is good for you.” This has been the conclusion of countless scientific studies. That apple a day to keep the doctor away, according to researchers, should be served with a nice glass of Pinot. Many (myself excluded of course) have used these findings as an excuse to partake in not-so-moderate habits.
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The Rumpus dispatched dozens of our top reporters to Chicago. None of them were heard from again.
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