Archive for November, 2008



Happy 2666 week

The reviews of Bolaño’s 2666, says Levi Stahl, collectively demonstrate the capaciousness of the novel.

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Feminine hygiene ad of your nightmares

Whoa. I thought the midcentury Lysol ones were the worst, but this Tampax ad collected amid some of the more misogynistic print campaigns of yore is singularly dreadful in its own special way. (Via.) Click for the full image at your peril.

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Levi Stahl imagines my flight home, as Anthony Powell might have rendered it

Soon, for my own amusement more than anyone else’s, I’ll get around to posting about the rest of my England trip. Meanwhile, I thought you might enjoy reading Levi Stahl’s delightful Anthony Powell pastiche inspired by my post about the torrid affair that erupted in the row ahead of me on the flight home. “As I read,” he told me, . . .

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