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Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller died this weekend.
In 1993, while studying in London, I attended the premiere of The Last Yankee at the Young Vic, starring Zoë Wanamaker and Peter Davidson (of Dr. Who fame). I sat on the same row as Arthur Miller. I had to pass him in the aisle to get to my seat, [...]

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The other C.K.

Check out the other C.K. (NYtimes reg. required).

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Susan Sontag

“Whatever you do, don’t misuse what you believe so that it gets in the way of the truth. That’s so easy to do, especially when so much around us encourages us to.”

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A dead mule…

I found mention of this paper over at Tingle Alley. An excerpt of the paper:

My survey of around thirty prominent twentieth-century Southern authors has led me to conclude, without fear of refutation, that there is indeed a single, simple, litmus-like test for the quality of Southernness in literature, One easily formulated into a question to [...]

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Found the Bibliotheca Alexandrina via MoorishGirl. Cool.

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Welsh on 18th and 19th Century Novels

Irvine Welsh likes Jane Austen:

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Gritty Author Welsh Reveals Love of Jane Austen
“They’re still to me, the greatest books ever written by English novelists.
“If you can take it almost as a sort of canon, on the whole they’ve been such a powerful, devastating influence on literature, British literature, European literature.”

I [...]

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