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Agenda: more of the same, with Baldwin interlude

Apart from the occasional Twitter flurry, I’m really only doing one thing in my free time these days (getting closer, thanks for asking). With a few exceptions. Next Wednesday, September 15, I’ll ask Rosecrans Baldwin some questions following a reading from his smart, taut, very accomplished first novel, You Lost Me There, about a scientist whose memories of his screenwriter . . .

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Food and metaphor

Spilling the beans, the apple of my eye, salad days: Lisa Bramen investigates the origins of food idioms. (Via.)

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