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Weekend Edition: 5-22

Self Promotion

I’m quoted in the National Book Critics Circle’s roundup of members’ thoughts on the smartest works on conjugal love. I picked Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, her memoir of the year following the death of her husband.

Blog Headline of the Week

TSA: Thousands Standing Around

Best Blog Line(s) of the […]

Sunday brunch

As I indicated, travel has keep internet access occasional at best. As a result, the weekly installments of Friday Follies and Weekend Edition didn’t make it on their normal days. So, with a bit of down time this morning, I’m offering Sunday Brunch, a combo of the two in one post that hopefully isn’t stale.

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Weekend Edition: 5-8

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I hadn’t heard about this before but it looks like there will be a Reel Dakota Film Festival in Sioux Falls this September. It is, however, the same weekend as the South Dakota Festival of Books.

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Noah’s Ark found! Again!

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

To Die […]

Weekend Edition: 5-1

Blog Headline of the Week

A New Argument In Favor of Cameras in the Courtroom: Bloggers Suck

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The lack of translated literature in the English-speaking world is “a new kind of iron curtain we have constructed around ourselves.” (The Literary Saloon)

Solitude and Leadership: If you want others […]

Weekend Edition: 4-24

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Boycott Arizona.

David Laskin, author of The Long Way Home (which I reviewed earlier this month) will present a program based on the book and do a book signing at the Old Courthouse Museum this Tuesday at 7 p.m. He will also speak and sign books at the Freeman Public Library in […]