Sunday, December 16, 2012

Day 16. Nicole Walker on why tiny things are good. David Hawkins' "Lorraine Nelson: A Biography in Post-it Notes" and J.B. MacKinnon's "False Idol."

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I hate nature essays, which is a horrible thing, since I write them. nature essay runs the risk of a) making everything it touches precious....
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December 16: T Clutch Fleischmann wants you to read Samuel Delany

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Dec 15, 2/2, David Griffith on Thomas Merton: "Letter to an Innocent Bystander": Meditation on the Possibility of Learning from the Newtown Tragedy

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I had originally intended to write in praise of Ross McElwee's film-essay Sherman's March:  A Meditation on the Possibility of Roman...
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Dec 15, 1/2: Lisa O'Neill on Lorraine Doran

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Binding the Bones The first time I encountered Lorraine Doran’s “A Film of Our Life, Played Backwards” [ here's an excerpt over at Gu...
Friday, December 14, 2012

December 14: Noam Dorr on Liat Berdugo’s "The Everyday Maths"

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I was one of those kids who had it easy in school (except for gym class, the bane of my asthmatic  existence). I didn’t have to work hard to...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Dec 13: Craig Reinbold loves Sugar

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Dear(est) Sugar , I think I might love you. I just said that out loud as I typed and now my wife—across the room—is l...
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Dec 13: Dinty W. Moore on Sven Birkerts' "Telescope"

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I can’t help but admire the remarkable concision and precision in Sven Birkerts’ essay “Telescope” in TriQuarterly .  I can’t help but a...