June 2010
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May 2010
30 posts
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The Bitter Beginning →
Fernet Branca
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Angel Island Immigration Station Poetry →
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40 years of change in the lives of Irish women →
10 things an Irish woman could not do in 1970
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A flow chart telling you where to eat in New... →
Me, almost always hungry, and eternally in love with Louisiana and her food gifts.
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Borges and Me, and Me →
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Granta Interview with Natasha Wimmer →
Translator of Roberto Bolaño’s “The Savage Detectives” and “2666.”
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The Myth of Fernet - SF Weekly →
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Breach of Peace →
Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
Historias de Cronopios y de Famas →
de Julio Cortazar
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Cassius Clay, the Original One →
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How the census has addressed race since 1790 →
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What makes a poem, a poem? In the new edition of Fernando Sorrentino’s Seven...
– Bookslut
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Food Fighter →
Tom Philpott on why class needs to be a part of the food debate
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U.S. Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds →
Roundup ——> Superweeds
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Finding the Charm of Cross-Country Rail Travel →
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For Every Zeke from Cabin Creek →
Basketball isn’t just a sport, it’s mythological in much of rural America.
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Yesterday I sold a pair of peacocks, the first time I have sold any. These...
– Letter from Flannery O’Connor to Elizabeth Bishop, August 1959