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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics)

Friday, April 18, 2025

So long, Onetel

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I've had the email address hdewitt@onetel.com since 2002 or so.  Since then I believe onetel has been taken over by Talk Talk.  For a wh...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

types

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  [A reader mentioned a post in which I had talked about Mark Girouard's Life in the English Country House. Couldn't find it on the ...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

time out

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 Looked at my website, designed in 2007 or 2008 with a few later changes, and it's pretty much unreadable on my phone. (I only got a sma...
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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Clearing out books (last chance before they go to bookstore or Lesekiosk)

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[All books now gone or spoken for - thanks to everyone who helped clear my shelves!] I probably can't stay in Berlin, so trying to get c...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

More on Cormac McCarthy

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 Aaron Gwyn, Twitter, images of Cormac McCarthy's letter to his editor Albert Erskine about stylistic nuances of colons, commas, hyphens...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

mute inglorious Nabokovs

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[This was originally posted back in 2009, I think, but was depublished by Blogger for violating Community Guidelines. Not sure what was wron...
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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Undervaluation of women artists

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 BBC radio segment on undervaluation of women artists (roughly, selling at 10% of what male artists sell for) here For those who recoil from...
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist.
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