Archive for February, 2010


The impressionist

Chekhov “makes telling use, as Eudora Welty once noted, of the way people speak without listening to each other.”

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Legal ebook piracy

Electronic copies of Adrian Johns’ Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates are free today (2/1). (Via.)

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Ways of becoming American

At the 92nd Street Y, Gary Shteyngart, Jamaica Kincaid, Ilan Stavans, and others discuss Becoming Americans, which I reviewed for NPR.

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