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29 Aug 2018, 8:52 pm
Books By John McCain Hard call: great decisions and the extraordinary people who made them The restless wave: good times just causes great fights another appreciations Worth fighting for: a memoir Faith of my fathers: a family memoir Character is destiny: inspiring stories we should all remember Why courage matters: the way to a braver life Last letters home World war two for kids: a history with 21 activities Books About John McCain John McCain and American odyssey by Robert… [read post]
19 Aug 2018, 6:09 am
Also at the NYT is Felicia Kornbluh's review of the young adult volume Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam.At Dissent is an interview with anthropologist David Graeber on his Bullshit Jobs: A TheoryAt The Nation, Kim Phillips-Fein reviews Mike Wallace's Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919. [read post]
28 Jul 2018, 7:15 am
”The essay title "Academics Explain David Foster Wallace to Me" is a play on the famous essay by Deirdre Coyle, "Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 2:50 pm
The dissent: The majority wrote that Judge Wallace's dissent was improperly reweighing the evidence. [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 3:00 am
The Seattle Times says that David George, the pastor of a church in Oakville, Washington, is being hailed as a hero for stopping a deadly shooting and carjacking spree at a Walmart. [read post]
9 Jun 2018, 11:15 am
” David Kessler, the former FDA commissioner who helped create the breast implant litigation fiasco and who now testifies frequently for the Lawsuit Industry, testified for Starbucks. [read post]
9 Jun 2018, 8:11 am
Molecular polarityThis makes me think about the famous David Foster Wallace essay, "This is Water," which begins: There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how's the water? [read post]
30 Apr 2018, 3:33 pm
David Remnick describes it like this:Five constructors will take turns crafting the puzzles; they are crossword experts whose answers and clues exhibit the same qualities we aim for in all of our writing: wit, intelligence, a wide-ranging interest in the world, and a love of language....The great Richard Wilbur, who died last fall, once published a poem in The New Yorker about doing a crossword—“a ghostly grille / Through which, as often, we begin to see / The confluence of the… [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 6:35 am
” [….]Rob Wallace, from an article in Farming Pathogens, 16 December 2010 (Big Farms: 118-123) [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 3:47 pm
"After listening to David Foster Wallace, I'm reading that event title in a ridiculously weary, sarcastic tone. [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 9:30 pm
Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home" More. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 2:00 am
The Lexington Dispatch reports that Sheriff David Grice was “as shocked and appalled as anyone else” to learn that Deputy Jeffrey Athey allegedly stole $1,000 from F&M Bank in an armed robbery on Tuesday afternoon. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 4:55 am
Philosopher David Wallace (USC, previously Oxford) writes: I was reminded to ask this by your blog post on the matter: is there any reasonably straightforward way to get a reliable guide as to what US (and, I guess, state) law... [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 5:00 am
While some, such as Security Minister Ben Wallace, argue that Tuesday’s ruling in SSHD v. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 12:38 pm
Watson, No. 16-15357 (2-1-18)(per curiam w/Wallace, Watford, & Sands). [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 6:45 am
A lobster is an excellent choice.And here's the great David Foster Wallace essay "Consider the Lobster. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 5:33 am
The Awl is ending, the NYT reports.Over the years, there were viral stories about how to cook a steak and David Foster Wallace’s private self-help library, as well as popular essays providing pointed advice to young people and exploring a writer’s evolving relationship with death.Many of the writers went on to distinguish themselves. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 5:41 am
"Scalia's quote about Trump is getting featured in some news stories, but I'd like to call your attention to 2 other things that I saw in the first few pages of the book, which is all that is visible at the Amazon link.First: Scalia, teenage heartthrob and, later, the grownup with groupies (click to enlarge):Second: David Foster Wallace (initially referred to by Scalia as "this man"): [read post]
15 Jan 2018, 3:47 pm
I've said a few times that I love the nonfiction essays of David Foster Wallace but I can't force myself into the fiction. [read post]
30 Dec 2017, 3:00 pm
You might remember that I was reading the David Foster Wallace story "The Suffering Channel" when I took an off ramp marked "squunched. [read post]
