23 Feb
“Thomas,” Artemis said. “More Thomas.”
I wasn’t sure what she was talking about at first. Then she walked upstairs with her dad following her. She pointed at a pile of magazines with familiar white titles on red backgrounds.
“She’s saying ‘Economist’. She wants to show you more Economists!”
At the time, I was trying [...]
17 Feb
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I never finished Remembrance of Things Past. I got as far as Sodom and Gomorrah, which is volume four out of Proust’s seven volume opus, and then I drifted off to something else. I never finished History of the English Speaking Peoples (four volumes), either. And I barely scratched the surface of [...]
16 Nov
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I have loved Sandra Tsing Loh since I first heard her on This American Life. Her essay, “Bad Sex with Bud Kemp” is a classic. Loh describes her friendship with the kindly Bud, how they knew each other in college and how they stayed friends. Other members of their clique drifted away but [...]
09 Nov
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I just finished reading Rising Tide by John M. Barry. It tells the story of the Mississippi Flood of 1927. Despite having traveled a fair amount over this country of ours, I never thought much about the enormity of the Mississippi River before reading this book. The Mississippi River Basin stretches from [...]
Author: Emily