May 2013
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May 16th
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elliott holt: Throwback Thursday contest →
elliottholt: My forthcoming novel You Are One of Them is set in the 1980s in Washington, D.C., and the 1990s in Moscow. In honor of our collective nostalgia for those decades, I’m giving away 10 free copies of the book. To enter the contest, just post a photograph of yourself from the 1980s or the…
May 16th
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April 2013
29 posts
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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WatchWatch
PBS NewsHour interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Mazzetti about the CIA’s secret army and their competition with the Pentagon.
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Michael Pollan on Restaurant Culture
From his in-depth Q&A in New York Adam Platt: What’s your view on restaurant culture these days? Do you eat out a lot? Michael Pollan: Probably once or twice a week. I think restaurant culture has gotten really decadent and way too precious. If I have to have another fourteen-course meal where I have to listen to a waiter give me the recipe before every course and interrupt my conversation...
Apr 15th
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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most...”
– Henry James, born April 15th, 1843
Apr 15th
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Apr 12th
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Charlie LeDuff on “The Colbert Report”!
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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The Way of the Knife author Mark Mazzetti talks about the secret history of the C.I.A.’s drone program.
Apr 8th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have...”
– Maggie Nelson, BLUETS (an exquisite meditation on the color blue—and sadness, suffering, heartbreak) I’ll reread it many times. (via elliottholt)
Apr 1st
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March 2013
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Mar 29th
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In case you were wondering why Phil Jackson's... →
Mar 28th
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Mar 28th
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Mar 28th
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“It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody...”
– Zadie Smith, “Joy” (via creativenonfictionquotes)
Mar 27th
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“The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to...”
– Robert Frost, born today in 1874.
Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Bike Grew Into Tree
reiflarsen: On Vashon Island (near Seattle, Washington), a tree grows carrying a rather unusual passenger – an old bike. A boy left his bike up against the tree when he went away to War in 1914 and he never came back, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike. Now, the bike has lifted 7 feet off the ground. All the other trees must think that one’s a cyborg.
Mar 22nd
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“Obviously if we take our work seriously we do not try to clone one novel to its...”
– William Gaddis’ letter to Don DeLillo on the publication of Libra. 
Mar 22nd
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Mar 20th
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“Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.”
– Zadie Smith, NW
Mar 19th
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Mar 19th
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Mar 18th
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Mar 15th
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“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and...”
– Joan Didion (via elliottholt)
Mar 15th
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“All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for...”
– Philip Roth
Mar 15th
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Mar 15th
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Mar 14th
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Mar 12th
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