Category Archives: reading
November 21, 2010 Confession: I read books for pleasure. My top-10 reads of 2010
I read some good books this year. Just because I read them this year doesn’t mean they were published this year. Some were, some weren’t. Here are my 10 best reads of 2010, alpha by author: Bike Snob: Systematically and Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by BikeSnobNYC Amid the bicycle repair manuals and Lance [...]
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November 16, 2010 Thoughts from the ironing board
I ironed 28 shirts Sunday afternoon. Summer Hawaiian prints, winter herringbone wools and everything in between — a year’s worth of shirts that had piled up on our dryer. Gives you time to think. And what I started thinking about was where all these shirts had come from. It wasn’t an original thought. A couple [...]
Tags: albert camus, clothing labels, ironing
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October 19, 2010 @glennbeck fact = or > @nytimes fact?
The post title in twitterspeak comes from an article in the current Atlantic Monthly called “Truth Lies Here” by Michael Hirschorn. Its basic question: “How can Americans talk to one another — let alone engage in political debate — when the Web allows every side to invent its own facts?” Its basic premise: We can’t. [...]
Tags: atlantic monthly, book of laughter and forgetting, clementis, klement gottwald, michael hirschorn, milan kundera, shirley sherrod, wikileaks
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June 16, 2010 ‘Hunger Artist’
Few stories I read as a teenager struck me so much and have stayed with me so long as “A Hunger Artist”. I had to look it up a moment ago to rediscover that it’s a Kafka story. I’ve been thinking about it a lot today, and I don’t know why. I don’t even know [...]
Tags: franz kafka, hunger artist
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January 12, 2010 Walking around
“It happens that I am tired of being a man.” That’s how Pablo Neruda begins his poem “Walking Around” in my translation. I’ve been doing a lot of both, walking around and being tired of being a man. I was at a party with co-workers Friday, a nice small gathering of editors and artists and [...]
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September 5, 2009 Traveling spaces
So, I’m not sure about the blog. Thousands are started every year, and most are abandoned. This may be one. Still, in writing about the short commute (or, in my case, not writing), it’s tough to find the subject. I thought of this blog a week or so ago when I was reading a New [...]
Tags: bicycling, commute, homi bhabha, katrina, liminality, new york times
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