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Dave Cullen v. Everest, + Sleeptalking Shakespeare
Well, not exactly. I read Dave Cullen’s book in about two days. It’s being compared to In Cold Blood and Helter Skelter (both of which I read three and four years ago, respectively), but t… more →
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Quick Review of 'The Queue' by Vladimir Sorokin
wrote 3 months ago: — is up at The Rumpus. It’s a cool book. From the review: Like the host of Russian sati … more →
A Brief Appreciation of Thomas Seltzer
wrote 5 months ago: It’s not often that I come across a great find in the dollar rack outside Atlantic Books in Br … more →
Dave Cullen v. Everest, + Sleeptalking Shakespeare
wrote 8 months ago: Well, not exactly. I read Dave Cullen’s book in about two days. It’s being compared to I … more →
War and Peace
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wrote 10 months ago: It was as if that lofty, infinite canopy of heaven that had once towered above him had suddenly turn … more →
War & Peace, Screwjack and sanity.
wrote 10 months ago: What a mean trick for Tolstoy to play on me, making me think Andrei might really be dead for like 30 … more →
War & Peace and spite
wrote 11 months ago: As for War & Peace, something struck me about the scene where Andrei and Rostov accidentally run … more →
Feelin' Fine in 2009
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wrote 11 months ago: The house is quiet for the first time since I can remember, which is nice because it gives me a chan … more →
War & Peace, Icarus & the new year
wrote 12 months ago: New link on the blogroll, courtesy of the ever-indispensable boulevardier. . . Also found on Nerve a … more →
War & Peace & New York
wrote 1 year ago: I had been neglecting W&P for the last few days, ending my tenure as a legit employee of TC (tha … more →
War & Peace & solitude.
wrote 1 year ago: Can I tell you my favorite thing I’ve read in the past couple of weeks? It’s when Richar … more →
War & Peace
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wrote 1 year ago: Yes. Last week I got the paperback of the new Pevear/Volokhonsky translation. I learned in school th … more →
Nabokov v Dostoevski
wrote 1 year ago: Yee-ah, it’s on. In fact, it’s no longer on, it was on in one man’s mind and later … more →
Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita
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wrote 1 year ago: “It’s no use, he sees her, he starts to shake and cough. Just like the old man in that b … more →
Solzhenitsyn
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wrote 1 year ago: And Alexandre Solzhenitsyn is dead. It’s a sad day in the literary world, this one. After appe … more →
yes
wrote 1 year ago: “We were discussing happiness, I believe. I was telling you about myself. Incidentally, I just … more →
Library Book Sale
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wrote 1 year ago: One of the things I love about our community is the annual book sale fundraiser at the library. It i … more →
