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Hi all. I don't feel motivated to post anything, so I won't be. The current format of syndicating other articles and reviews are a waste, in my opinion. I'm thinking of a way to make it a unique experience...
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The Terminated by Christopher De Bellaigue for NY Times Books (Feb. 4, 2007) "After a silence dictated by shame, pain and politics that lasted the better part of a century, the suffering of Armenians massacred...
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Hart Crane's Bridge To Nowhere by William Logan for NY Times Books (Jan. 28, 2007) "Before Hart Crane’s leap into the Caribbean that fatal April noon in 1932, he folded his jacket over the ship’s rail...
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Midnight At The Oasis by Max Rodenbeck for NY Times Books (Jan. 28, 2007) "Around the time of the War of Independence, America’s main contact with the Middle East consisted in trading Caribbean rum for...
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The Recycled City by Karen Olsson for NY Times Books (Jan. 28, 2007) "Chris Abani has done an end-run around the immigrant novel. In two previous books, Abani, who was born in Nigeria, traced a path from...
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Lusty Literature by John Sutherland for Washington Post/Book Worlld (Jan. 28, 2007) "Elisabeth Ladenson's witty meditation on literary obscenity pivots on "irony, paradox, and absurdity." How, she ruminates,...
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The Rise of Radio by Douglas Brinkley for Washington Post/Book World (Jan.28, 2007) "Ear-splitting static was the curse of AM radio in its formative decades. A far-off bolt of lightning or stiff wind would...
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Being and Laziness by JosephFrank for The New Republic (Jan. 25, 2007) "Anyone with a claim to literacy is familiar with the names of Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky, and can cite some of the titles...
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