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Am I biased? Or is The High Hat one of few consistently engaging webzines? The current issue, published 11/14, is a pre-death homage to Robert Altman.

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Gore Vidal heralds the demise of hands-on editors, blaming them for the reign of “near- illiterates, like F. Scott Fitzgerald.” (Vidal has hated on Fitzgerald for years.)

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“Kingsley and Martin Amis once had a good row about the word ‘dilapidated.’”

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The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics has named JM Coetzee its first Honorary Fellow.

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Venezuela’s new electronic voting system involves paper receipts. Officials will count them and compare the totals against electronic results.

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