From Jodi Kantor's article "The Literary Critic's Shelf of Shame":In his novel Changing Places, David Lodge describes a literary parlor game called "Humiliations" in which participants confess, one by one, titles of books they've never read. The genius of the...
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I got to see my father, stepmother, and eight year-old brother this weekend for the first time in a couple of years. They were in town for this year's NAMM Show, which is an enormous music industry trade show....
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Remember that one part in Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"--the part where the technicians come to fix Sam's faulty heating system, but Robert DeNiro has already rappelled in and done a commando-style repair? "They fixed themselves," Sam claims in desperation. "They fixed...
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When you stay up late watching TV while you fold laundry and generally futz around your house, you start to see some really great commercials starting around midnight or 12:30. One of my favorites is is the ad for the...
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Even if I had absolutely no interest in the products sold in the Athleta catalog, I'd still enjoy getting it in the mail. That's because I like looking at this: ... a whole lot more than I like looking at...
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