March 2012
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Listen to this now please.
fsgbooks:
Ira Glass...
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PULPHEAD NOTES: John Jeremiah Sullivan and Geoff... →
These two are my favorite.
fsgbooks:
From our latest issue of Work in Progress:
johnjeremiahsullivan:
(A little bit of the two writers’ exchange at 192 Books in New York a couple weeks ago. Read the rest here.)
Dyer: I was talking to someone last night, and I said about these essays of yours that there’s no telling what you’re going to say next. And that carries at the level of the...
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson’s response on Reddit when asked “What can you tell a young man looking for motivation in life itself?” (via ezrapound)
“At one time the Foxes, perishing from thirst, adopted a ruse which smacks of the...”
– Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 by Milo Milton Quaife
I picked a random page and copied down the first paragraph. This is the most exciting history of Chicago. Ever.
(via 57thstreetbooks)
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NBCC Award Winners for Publishing Year 2011 →
thepenguinpress:
On Thursday, March 8, at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, the National Book Critic Circle presented its awards for publishing year 2011. The prize in fiction went to Edith Pearlman for Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories (Lookout Books), a collection of 34 Chekhov-like short stories…
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“I don’t have to explain the ‘Whys?’ of Shakespeare. If you are human, you know...”
– Barbara Gaines, founder of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (via magpieandwhale)
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