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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...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Berlin (notes for writers)

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  How to get a Kitagutschein on All About Berlin blog

Randall Collins has a blog, how could I not know

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 Collins published The Credential Society in 1979, when his publishers took so tepid an interest in the book they refused to publish a paper...

Rejection of Proust by Gallimard

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 Short segment on Radio France on Proust's rejection by Gallimard, account of the many revisions Proust made to the MS once accepted for...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Lives of Astronomers

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In summer 1997 I went to Oxford to do research on a character I thought should be an astronomer.  I went to the Radcliffe Science Library an...

Continent cut off

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Am writing on my sister's laptop, as mine is on the fritz and I can't even find out whether it can be fixed because Maryland is unde...
Monday, April 6, 2020

Interview of Hadley Wickham (woot)

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The real purpose of this blog, you may not have realised, is to have a place to put things where I can conveniently find them again.  Am in ...
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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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