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Why You Should Not Be Afraid to Read “Little Women”
If anyone could be said to have really written in a garret, alone and oblivious, it is Louisa May Alcott.
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Best of Shouts & Murmurs (from the past year or so)
The Shouts & Murmurs section of the New Yorker is reliably witty, wry, and short. For some, it is the pre-game to reading the magazine, and for others, the best (or only) part of the magazine (second to the cartoons).…
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Different Sorts of Rubbish: Super Bowl Edition
George Orwell would not have liked the Super Bowl. In his 1945 essay “The Sporting Spirit” he writes, “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and…
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BAD MOMMY BLOG: Princesses, part I
disney, princess, writing, outliers, malcolm gladwell, children’s books, bitches
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Last Week in the New Yorker: a Link List and Review
THE TALK OF THE TOWN TRANSITIONING by Hendrik Hertzberg You can always count on Hendrick Hertzberg to tell you what your new political stance is; more than that, he makes your already liberal opinions smarter and better focused. Since it’s Inauguration…
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Unlove: a Literary Break-Up List
To list all the poetry and prose concerned with love and/or anti-love would be to write a list of all the books ever written, and so below is an extraordinarily incomplete list of a few very good links I’ve recently…
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Different Sorts of Rubbish, Links by Thomas Seely
X Minus 1 is the perfect companion to insomnia. It sounds like a psychotropic drug developed by the C.I.A., but if you’re like me, this series of radio plays might be just the kind of vintage sci-fi escapism needed to…
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Letter from Paris, Parts 11–12: The Final Chapters
I love Paris. I love Paris I love Paris I love Paris.
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Write What You Know: Random Book Links by Elissa Bassist
James Wolcott’s review of Updike’s The Widows of Eastwick summed up in one piece of advice: skip the first third of the book. Unlike Hemingway, Plath, Wolfe, et al., Updike refuses to put the pen down, and now “younger novelists…
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When Legal Matters Inhibit Good Journalism
The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger dives into the complicated issues that arise when newspapers attempt to unpack the most complicated topics.
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Letter from Paris, Part 9: Now, Here Was Paris
We pass a well, a perfectly round mouth in the stone where all this blue water spills out.