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Writing Worth Reading

* [2]Ikeshima: Goodbye To Coal
Pachiguy | Spike Japan | 31 August 2010
Beautiful, sad, photo-essay about near-deserted Japanese island, once
home of country's last working coalmines. Twelve children in school
built for 1,500. One restaurant. Lots, and lots, of rust
* [3]The Post-Modern Ear
Roger Scruton | Axess | 1 August 2010
Short account of evolution of modern classical music. Atonality was
promoted by governments and elites. Romantic tradition, infused by jazz,
proved stronger. Minimalism tried to combine both, badly
* [4]Obituary: Lord Glenconner
Anonymous | Telegraph | 29 August 2010
Eton and Oxford. Bought Caribbean island of Mustique. Walker for
Princess Margaret. Child by Lucian Freud's mistress. Lost most of his
money. Limbo-danced at Edinburgh festival
* [5]White Fright
Christopher Hitchens | Slate | 30 August 2010
Glenn Beck channels anxiety among many white Americans that non-whites
will soon outnumber them. Claims that Obama is Muslim, and foreign-born,
are coded expressions of racial fear
* [6]Cover Story
Tom Scocca | Boston Globe | 29 August 2010
Interview with Andrew Pettegree, historian, on cultural, commercial
upheavals produced by first printed books. New market, new commodity.
People had to get used to buying and selling them
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[7]Today on FiveBooks: award-winning writer Tom Piazza chooses the best five
books on New Orleans.
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7. http://fivebooks.com

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