Archive for December, 2006

Although I’m frequently mystified by his editorial decisions, there’s no denying the value of David Remnick’s best reportage. (And he did invite Gessen & S/FJ aboard.)

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Joan Didion turns 72 today. Celebrate by reading Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Miami, or the collected nonfiction, which I desperately covet.

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Another anti-science move from the Bush administration? The EPA is closing down regional libraries.

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Harry Crews spends the first six minutes of an audio interview praising Graham Greene.

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A Brooklynite’s lament: “[T]he collective surrounding weight of other writers promises to ensure we will never write another article, to say nothing of a book, until we are 57.”

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