Archive for December, 2006

The TSA unveils X-ray passenger screening. Will pregnant women be given a lead jumper? (Via; report; fun tips.)

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NYRB Classics started a blog, A Different Stripe. You can recommend favorite out-of-print books for the series.

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A scattershot guide to literary South Florida includes the depressing fact that Zora Neale Hurston worked as a maid on Miami Beach late in life. See also.

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“As critics go, Anderson is probing and even-tempered, not exactly a hanging judge. But something about [James] Patterson’s novels makes the veins stand out in his neck.”

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Dorothy Parker is out of ribbon again. (Via.) Also, Dogmatika digs up more Tim Gauld comics — on Edward Gorey, Emily Dickinson, and many other writers.

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