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Writing Worth Reading
[2]The Night Santana Conned Me
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Sarah Fister Gale | Salon | 8 December 2010
Well, not the Santana. In fact not a Santana at all. But still. When a guy
looks like a rock star, and behaves like one, and sits next to you on the
plane, and takes you to a night club—what's a girl to do?
[3]Perils Of Ideology
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Peter Hitchens | Five Books | 9 December 2010
British journalist discusses and recommends favourite political novels from
Stalinist era. Rewarding, esoteric selection. Starts with a lesser-known
Eric Ambler, followed by a salute to Lionel Davidson
[4]The Impact Of Anonymous
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Evgeny Morozov | Net Effect | 9 December 2010
Cyber-attacks on Visa, Mastercard, are playing with fire. Wikileaks
narrative should be about freedom of expression, transparency,
whistle-blowing. Not about hacker-gangs as threats to national security
[5]Steve Wolfe’s Superflat Simulacra
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William Poundstone | Lacmonfire | 6 December 2010
Exhibition review, reflecting on the nature and virtues of trompe l'oeil
art. At its best, does it perfectly reproduce nature? Or merely come close
enough to confuse, underlining the gap between art and life?
[6]Social Science Palooza
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David Brooks | NYT | 6 December 2010
Why beautiful women should take up chess, and more findings from recent
social science studies of human behaviour. Enjoyable and educational. "A day
without social science is like a day without sunshine"
[7]The Information Palace
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James Gleick | NYR Blog | 9 December 2010
Etymology of the word "information", as tracked by the Oxford English
Dictionary. Current definition runs to 9,400 words, "the length of a
novella". Modern usage, describing flows of data, dates from 1948
[8]Interactive Storytelling: An Oxymoron
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Nicholas Carr | Rough Type | 8 December 2010
Advocates of interactive storytelling have a political agenda, not an
artistic one. "The author is the father who has to be slain before culture
can be liberated from its elitist, patriarchal shackles"
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Sweden
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Scott Adams | Dilbert Blog | 8 December 2010
The Julian Assange affair, and the place of Sweden in the world, captured in
about 400 words. "If your condom breaks, that's jail time. What I'm saying
is that the Club Med in Sweden is a nervous place"
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Jaw-Dropping Literary Genius
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Chuck Klosterman | GQ | 6 December 2010
Relaxed, sympathetic profile of Jonathan Franzen, with snippets of Q&A. Lots
on David Foster Wallace, who, until his suicide, was Franzen's main rival
for the title of greatest living American novelist
[11]Interview: John Pistole, TSA Chief
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James Fallows & Jeffrey Goldberg | Atlantic | 8 December 2010
Head of America's transport security agency, 26-year FBI veteran, defends
airport airport screening procedures, in long interview with two prominent
critics. Most of the time he gets the best of the argument
* [12]Rough Cut
Aron Ralston | Outside | 4 November 2010
In the film "127 Hours", James Franco plays Aron Ralston, who was
trapped in a Utah canyon by a fallen boulder, and freed himself by
cutting off his arm. Here, Ralston reflects on his ordeal, as life and
as art
* [13]On His Majesty's Secret Service
Dominic Sandbrook | New Republic | 8 December 2010
History of MI6 reviewed, most enjoyably. Founding director wore a false
beard, cut off one of his own legs with a penknife. Employed Graham
Greene, Somerset Maugham. Agents used human semen as invisible ink
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[14]Topic: STIEG LARSSON'S SWEDEN
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Essays on the Millennium trilogy, the man who wrote it, the country in which
it is set, the murder that inspired it—and what to read next... [15]Continue
reading...
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[16]Today on FiveBooks: Mira Kirshenbaum on Relationship Therapy
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