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Never mind Bloomsbury, the Moveable Feast, the American Romantics. Tom Nissley pines for the days of Trow, Kincaid, and Frazier at the New Yorker.

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“Why is Martin Amis so angry? And why is it all so personal?”

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NASA is teaming up with Google, in a “partnership straight out of Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash,” to search and index 48 years’ worth of information.

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Hemingway’s cats are still trapped in legal limbo.

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Sure, the “DFW footnote tic can get tiresome,” but the armor-clad man in the shark’s belly might “merit a little amplification and backgrounding.”

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