2010
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Magazine Review #3: Tin House #46, Winter Reading
I’ve been craving winter. Real winter. Snow and ice and shoveling and bundling up to the point of being unable to bend over. We don’t get that here in San Francisco.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
You look like you could use some Polish art. Behold the South Korean English teaching robot. Here are some vintage photo postcards for you. Very old teeth are very important.
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Falling in Love with AHWOSG 10 Years Later
I hate it when people buy me books for the holidays. I’m a firm believer that certain books enter into our lives at exactly the right moments, and if a well-meaning gift-giver were to intervene with the latest Nicholas Sparks…
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Stride Gives Rombes Some Love
Well would you look at that, our very own Nicholas Rombes‘ Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint (which we discussed here) has been named one of Stride Magazine‘s best of 2010. Congrats Nick!
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John Knight: The Last Book I Loved, The Best of Roald Dahl
There are too many good writers for me to keep track of so, mostly for the sake of convenience, I categorize them: Koontz writes thrillers, Franzen does literature, King fills the world with horror, Snickett delights children. The problem is…
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Antwerpian Expressionists
A group of Flemish woodcuts from De Moderne Vlaamse Houtsnijkunst (1927), via F.A. Bernett Books (the book has now sold, unfortunately not to me):
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Gabriela Iztner: The Last Book I Loved, The History of Love
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss, is a book within a book within a book. Like a matryoshka doll set, when you think you discover what the book is really about, you find this other smaller book inside the…
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A Clouded Thing
Jaimy Gordon’s National Book Award-winning novel conveys the hard-knock world of horseracing in a style reminiscent of Walker Percy and Mark Twain.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is a very slow day on the internet. New Scientist brings you their favorite space stories of the year. Ennio Morricone is composing cellphone ring tones. this is true. Meanwhile, the chocolate genome has been successfully mapped. Also, here…
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CIA Response to WikiLeaks: “WTF”
A report from the Washington Post on Wednesday describes an effort by the CIA to assess the impact of WikiLeaks on U.S. national security. The effort is known as the WikiLeaks Task Force. Apparently it’s also commonly referred to as…