December 2010
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We're stuck...
So we’re making the best of it.
Happy snow day everyone!
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A Year in Marginalia
Thanks Sam Anderson, for providing such amusing commentary to your year in reading. (And to the Millions for posting.)
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The most isolated man on the planet
That’s a satellite photo of 31 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon reserved for one man. No trespassing, no development. He’s the last of his tribe, and he has never had contact with the outside world. Ever.
Journalist Monte Reel covers the story in his book “Last of the Tribe,” but you can also read his great article here.
One of the best stories of the year, in our...
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WatchIf you haven’t experienced the Ron Charles experience, you should.
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“I think Housing Works wins the shorts war.”
– Front of Book
Welp, my life was worthwhile. How ‘bout yours?
(via housingworksbookstore)
Faulkner in shorts? Win.
(via newyorker)
Oh, damn. Now if we could only find that photo of Edith Wharton in shorts…
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Fitzgerald. In shorts. (Kind of)
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Woman spends days smelling books
“Smelling books is really nostalgic for me—I am often reminded of my grandparents’ homes, or libraries where I used to go when I was a child.” -Rachel Morrison
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Forgotten Roald Dahl story for sale on ebay
Anyone have $2,000 they could lend us?
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“I don’t want to repeat my innocence, I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via fuckyeahfitzgerald)
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Chuck Klosterman & Jonathan Franzen ride the Acela
“I try not to lie, and I try to interact with others as full people, even if they’re strangers. And I want to write fiction with those two premises.”
—Jonathan Franzen to Chuck Klosterman, somewhere on the way to Washington DC
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