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July 22, 2010
Blog: The Book Bench
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Books and the Cheshire Killings
- The story is eerily familiar: a peaceful, close-knit town, a family of four, and a crime of unimaginable brutality. But this is not the Clutter farm, “out there” in Holcomb, Kansas, but the home of...
July 2, 2010
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Bookspotting: O'Hare International
- I headed out to Chicago for a wedding last weekend, and, stepping into LaGuardia’s strange, detached Marine Air Terminal, I was dismayed to realize that I hadn’t been on an airplane in nearly two years....
July 1, 2010
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Luck Be a Lady
- At the racetrack, most of my customers are big losers. In seven years as a pari-mutuel clerk—a job I wrote about for this year’s Belmont Stakes—I’ve catalogued the ways gamblers part with money: laboring over...
June 29, 2010
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Martin Amis on a Hot Tin Roof
- I’ve always had a bit of a problem with tardiness, so it’s unsurprising that I joined Twitter, after years of scoffing and griping, just five days ago. It’s been an interesting, confusing week, but nothing’s...
June 22, 2010
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Clandestine
- Two-thirty on a Wednesday afternoon, Manhattan-bound L train: Lucky enough to grab a seat, I was squashed up against a woman in her late twenties wearing a crisp button-down shirt and cradling a Kindle. Now,...
June 18, 2010
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The Cookbooks of Summer, Part 5
- The Book Bench is reviewing new and forthcoming cookbooks this week. In this post: “In the Green Kitchen,” by Alice Waters. It’s hard to not feel comforted by the sight of Alice Waters tenderly washing...
June 16, 2010
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Bloomsday in Brooklyn
- “I was blue mouldy for the want of that pint. Declare to God I could hear it hit the pit of my stomach with a click.” James Joyce sends Leopold Bloom into a pub...
June 15, 2010
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Bookspotting: The New Yorker vs. The Daily Beast
- The relationship between this magazine and The Daily Beast is no secret. So last week, when the Web magazine came up on the Small Fry roster, our co-captain Drew Dernavich sent out a call for...
June 14, 2010
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The Application of Philosophy
- I’ve never fared well with philosophy. I gave it a shot at Amherst—first Nietzsche and Foucault, then the Socratic dialogues—but by my sophomore year, I’d already retreated to the safety of Victorian literature. I never...
June 8, 2010
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Bookspotting: The New Yorker vs. The Nation
- The softball season has just begun, and our own team, the Small Fries, has already seen its ups and downs. With a win against Scientific American and a loss to Vanity Fair, last Friday’s match-up...