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: Issue #52: Summer Reading →
thetinhouse: In the late 1980s, the British music critic Simon Reynolds coined the term “miserabilism” to describe Morrissey and the numerous Manchester bands spreading their very personal gloom across the globe. The word could also be applied to the “Merritt Parkway Novel,” Gerald Howard’s…
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Omnivoracious: Summer Reading Lists Are Here →
harperbooks: The New York Times offers an eclectic list of books to read, ranging from an autobiographical pop culture read to a serious history of digital computers. NPR did something interesting with their summer reading list. They had indie booksellers make the picks. USA Today goes interactive with their picks. The Wall Street Journal put out a well-chosen summer reading list. USA Today...
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“The troopers are riding, are riding by the troopers are riding to kill and die...”
– Charles Reznikoff, Romance
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“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse,...”
– Virginia Woolf
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“‘A psychiatrist could help. There’s a good man in Albany.’ Finnerty...”
– Kurt Vonnegut,  Player Piano  (via transvestitesemicolons)
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A Different Stripe: Revolution by ridicule: The... →
Cossery’s heroes are usually dandies and thieves, unfettered by possessions or obligations; impoverished but aristocratic idlers who can suck the marrow of joy from the meager bones life tosses their way. They are the descendants of Baudelaire’s flâneur, of the Surrealists with their rejection…
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“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
– Mark Twain (via amandaonwriting)
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“The arms of chairs appear To have ideas about How we should sit in them. They...”
– John Fuller, The Philosopher King
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The Myth of English as a Global Language →
English spelling is notoriously inconsistent, and some have gone further, calling it “the world’s most awesome mess” or “an insult to human intelligence” (both these from linguists, one American, one Austrian). Maybe this is just because our alphabet only has twenty-six letters to represent more than forty phonemes, or distinctive speech-sounds, and some of those – notably q and x – are not...
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Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Books:... →
mxpublishing: After hearing the case for and against destroying Undershaw, a really nice touch from the judge as he commended the Holmes supporters who had sat in silence for seven hours - every single seat in the public gallery was full with Save Undershaw supporters, led by Lynn Gale. We…
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“O what to me the little room That was brimmed up with prayer and rest; He...”
– W.B. Yeats, The Heart of the Woman
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