Archive for February, 2007

Auden profiled

The great W.H. Auden had little patience for bourgeois sensibilities. “If it’s romance you’re looking for,” he told a lover, “go fuck a journalist.”

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Keeping Iraq’s library open

Iraq’s national library was looted and burned in 2003. Now its director is blogging about the bombings, shootings and death threats he and his staff face.

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Lost Mountain paperback

Erik Reece’s Lost Mountain, a look at the devastating effects of radical strip-mining in Appalachia, is out in paperback. On Air America, he discusses U.S. energy policy and more.

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Conjugating spit

I think I’ve always used “spat” as the past tense of “spit,” but evidently some Americans don’t — or didn’t.

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New arts site

I’m occasionally cross-posting to New Critics, a site collecting writing on the arts from fifteen bloggers, many (but not all) of whom write elsewhere about politics.

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