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Sunday, April 22, 2012

dutch day 3

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Our teacher explains today that Dutch is much fonder than German of Verbalisierung.  (Our teacher switched happily back and forth between Ge...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

be on the one hand good, and do not on the other hand be bad

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Rich Beck has a terrific discussion of The Last Samurai on Emily Books , of which this is my favourite line: DeWitt, working at a time wh...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

not satirizing anything

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TM: I was really struck by the tone of the book. It seems weirdly refined in a way that was oddly familiar to me, but that I couldn’t qu...
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over the rainbow

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My job is not only watching film. The most interesting part will be in June, July, and August when I meet the filmmakers, read scripts, a...

calculated risks

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Fortunately, when you purchase a low-powered car from Young Marmalade, the free installation of a black box can cut your insurance premium...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

pudding meet alice

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(pp, vegetarian since 1985, reads a piece in which a vegetarian interviews a man who gives cows a nice life before they become steak) Log...

yet another interview

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with Andy Seisberg, for Emilybooks, here
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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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