TYPEWRITERS
The library I work in got rid of the last two working typewriters last week. When I arrived here, in 1991,...
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HELL IN A VERY SMALL PLACE
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Why Literature?
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“Sheets of Scheduled Slaughter”
Thomas Hardy: At the War Office, London                          I Last year I...
Gravy
We were in the city this weekend packing up the last of my mother’s stuff to bring to Ithaca. While in the...
Lamb Shanks
I love to cook and Sunday is the one day of the week I can devote the time and energy to make a good meal...
BREAD AND CIRCUITS
Last weekend I was in New York, winding things up with my mother’s apartment, so I thought I’d take a...
The 99% Solution
News coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to be sporadic, but it’s there if you look...
It Starts With 10People
 This morning I awoke from my news-free weekend to hear that the Occupy Wall Street action has inspired...
Nguyen Cochinchina
NGUYEN COCHINCHINA SOUTHERN VIETNAM IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES By Li Tana Southeast Asia...
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