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Open Thread: What Do You Eat in Your Media Diet?

April 27, 2011

I am really late to this, but The Atlantic has been posting peoples’ media diets for a while now.  My favorites are the people I’m most familiar with: Tyler Cowen, Anna Holmes, Terry Gross, Gary Shteyngart. I’m always interested in what people read and how they read it (which is probably evident by the Friday Links), so I thought it might be fun to share what/how we read stuff in the comments.  What really interests me about the media diet ...

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The Most Depressing Suggestions for Me Based on Searching for “Matryoshkas” on Amazon

March 9, 2011

Inspiration from Edith. You might not think this one is depressing. But it’s called, “I very much want a dog.” And do you know why why Matthew can’t have a dog?  Because he lives in AN ORPHANAGE. But this is kind of cool, though. 

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Books: O Jerusalem

September 27, 2010

I’ve been gushing about this one for the past couple weeks on various social media outlets because it’s one of the best books I’ve read in a long time.  It’s really rare that I’m be sad when books end, the way I was when Jonathan Strange+Mr. Norrell ended, but this is one case where I was. The book goes through, detail by detail, of the battle for Jerusalem during the war for Israel’s independence in 1948, from both the Israeli ...

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Meeting the writer you look up to most is better than Mother Theresa riding a unicorn

September 14, 2010

HOLD THE PRESSES. It’s Gary Shteyngart! 10 feet away from me! At Politics and Prose. Doing a really great job reading from Super Sad True Love Story. No, wait, Ok that’s more like it. And. He signed my book. To Vicki: Please mock. With best wishes (s’ uspehom), Igor (his full name.) There are no pictures of him signing my book because I was crazy nervous and stood in line for what seemed like eternity trying to think of the ...

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Mind currently in: Mongolia

August 31, 2010

Mongolia borders other thoughts in my mind the same way it borers Russia in real life: quietly, peripherally, passively. Russia-Mongolia border. Mr. B always makes fun of me for being Mongoloid because sometime, vaguely, years ago, I mentioned to him that it’s possible that my dad’s side of the family, like many Russians, have Mongolian or Tatar ancestry after I saw a picture of my aunt when she was younger looking more Asian than European.  According to Armchair Anthropologist Boykis, this is ...

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