August 2012
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“Why live? Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in...”
– Centenarian M.H. Abrams, founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, on why we should study the stuff.
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Incidentally
If you wanna know what an embarrassing people’s list looks like, you can do no better/worse than this. It always makes me feel sorry for Modern Library. Their canonical list is sort of depressing, but no one deserves a rabid pack of Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard readers!
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People's list, women, ranking, etc.
If I had bothered to guess before reading the results, I would have put female participation in Pitchfork’s People’s List at 10%. So 12% is a positive surprise! (FWIW, I finally decided to make a list … an hour after the polls closed.) I probably know a little more about these things than the average Pitchfork reader, having written for the pub and, more to the point, having been...
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The 10 Smartest Cities (According To Science)
cheatsheet:
newsweek:
donkeyconk:
newsweek:
Another day, another list! Behold. The 10 “smartest cities” in America.
“Raleigh-Durham” isn’t a city.
You’re not a city.
Mission to civilize.
The photo used for Chicago should pretty well dissuade anyone from ever moving here.
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“The problem is not that Dale Peck can’t write. Far from it. The problem is that...”
– Ron Powers on Dale Peck’s novel, The Garden of Lost and Found for the NYTBR.
Zing! The last paragraph of the review may be the harshest thing I’ve read about a name-brand author in a prestige pub in some time. So much for “clubbiness and glad-handing.” Not that this book...
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Dear tumblr radar: More pics of cats with cash! Less creepy WTF “fashion.”
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Notable deaths of 2012 →
Everybody seems to be dying all of the sudden. Feels like it, anyway. This L.A. Times slideshow is a nifty way (well, you know…) to catch up on people who slipped away while we were distracted by life. Dorothea Tanning (#94), Vidal Sassoon (#42), Henry Hill (#25) and Lillian Bassman (#86), for example.
