September 20th, 2012
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slaughterhouse90210: “I’d become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody’s error in judgement.”― Sam Lipsyte, The Ask We heartily endorse this pairing.

slaughterhouse90210:

“I’d become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody’s error in judgement.”
― Sam Lipsyte, The Ask

We heartily endorse this pairing.

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May 29th, 2012
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Zoom slaughterhouse90210: “So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?” ― Hilary Mantel, Experiment in Love

slaughterhouse90210:

“So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?”
― Hilary Mantel, Experiment in Love

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May 14th, 2012
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“Hemingway & Gellhorn,” starring Nicole Kidman as as journalist Martha Gellhorn and Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway, will air Monday, May 28 on HBO. The film begins in 1936 when the two meet at in a bar in Key West, Florida. Instantly, there’s a spark and soon both take off for Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War.

Refusing to be a “footnote in someone else’s life,” it’s Gellhorn’s drive and strong-willed personality that captures the imagination. 

This dramatic retelling of a dramatic relationship — with cameos from John Dos Passos, Maxwell Perkins, and Max Eastman — is sure to appeal to literary fans. 

Before you watch the film, read about this heroic, female war correspondent who reported on fascism from the front lines. Might we suggest:

Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead and the Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn edited by Caroline Moorehead. 

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April 18th, 2012
justinhargett
Zoom ATTENTION INTERNET: The parable of Baltimore’s Snot Boogie, recounted above on page 563 in David Simon’s Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, was later immortalized in The Wire’s very first cold open. Neat huh? Previously, we revisited the curious case of the copier turned polygraph test from Season 5.

ATTENTION INTERNET:

The parable of Baltimore’s Snot Boogie, recounted above on page 563 in David Simon’s Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, was later immortalized in The Wire’s very first cold open. Neat huh?

Previously, we revisited the curious case of the copier turned polygraph test from Season 5.

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