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I’ve been reading through David Foster Wallace’s (wiki, fan site) book of collected essays Consider the Lobster (wiki) and am currently in the middle of the essay “Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think” re John Updike’s “Toward the End of Time”. I haven’t read any Updike [...]

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I was browsing through somebody else’s bookshelf when I noticed one authored by Miranda July, titled No one belongs here more than you. (book site, amazon). I asked if it was the same Miranda July (wiki) who made that one movie I liked a lot, and then struggled to remember the name.
She [...]

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“As writer John Seabrook put it, “This may be the most depressing thing about the casual movement: no clothing is casual anymore.”
In general, I’d say [tag]The Paradox of Choice[/tag]: Why More is Less by Barry Schwarz has been a very interesting read. It addresses all sorts of things related to how we [...]

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Lately I’ve been doing a bit of [tag]reading[/tag], much of it non-fiction. The latest book I’ve finished is Charles Wheelan’s [tag]Naked Economics[/tag].
I don’t know what prompted me to pick it up in the bookstore a few weeks ago, much less seek it out in the public library here to finish it. [...]

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“Both elbows on the table, I covered my face with my palms.
Inside that darkness, I saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don’t know it’s raining.
Until someone came and lightly [...]

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