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My Morning Jacket’s mildly bookish new song, “Librarian,” is Dwight Garner’s summer of 2008 anthem.
My Morning Jacket’s mildly bookish new song, “Librarian,” is Dwight Garner’s summer of 2008 anthem.
In case it’s not self-evident, we’re keeping summer hours, when we’re keeping hours at all. The Smart Set is on vacation till Labor Day, and I’m trying to see visiting friends, stay on top of the day job, and meet a slew of freelance deadlines while in the midst of some incredibly banal and incredibly time-consuming travails. I’ll post as . . .
A.S. Byatt recalls teaching with Penelope Fitzgerald, an austere & original talent, at a test-prep school for women seeking entry to Oxford and Cambridge.
Geoff Manaugh posts an edited MP3 of his conversation with Tom McCarthy, which ranges from memory and architecture to trauma and the spatial nature of repetition.