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Even in the end, Molly Ivins was still cutting back her arch political shrub. Bang some pots and pans as you read her final column. - Molly

Students, meet your new tutor: Amis, the enfant terrible, turns professor.  - Guardian Unlimited

Jane Smiley keeps the flame of Boccaccio alive in her new novel, "Ten Days in the Hills," but are the critics smiling? - Los Angeles Times

Can 200 million dollars infuse life back into American poetry? - The New Yorker

And beneath a dimpled spider, fat and white lies the subterranean Robert Frost, in a collection of private notes published for the first time, 44 years after the author's death.  - Adam Kirch, The NYSun

Did Emily Dickinson really hear a fly buzz before she died, or was it Britney Spears wailing out the poet's verse? Well, not yet, maybe. - The NYSun

Few authors inspire the kind of life-changing devotion, blind hatred, or contemptuous dismissal so frequently achieved by Ayn Rand, so why do adolescent females love her? - In Character

Are vegetarians the moral, peace-loving, cruelty-free enemies of the meat eater? Or a bunch of kooks living in la-la land? - Salon

When you’re done, you should really check out how cool this ceiling is. Or so says Steve Martin in the New Yorker. 

This Week's Featured Story:
The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield. 
 

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Wednesday - 2/14/07

Even in the end, Molly Ivins was still cutting back her arch political shrub. Bang some pots and pans as you read her final column. Students, meet your new tutor: Amis, the enfant terrible, turns professor. Jane Smiley keeps the flame of Boccaccio alive in her new novel, "Ten Days in the Hills," but are the critics smiling? Can 200 million dollars infuse life back into American poetry? And beneath a dimpled spider, fat and white lies the subterranean Robert Frost, in a collection of private notes published for the first time, 44 years after the author's death.  Did Emily Dickinson really hear a fly buzz before she died, or was it Britney Spears wailing out the poet's verse? Well, not yet, maybe. Few authors inspire the kind of life-changing devotion, blind hatred, or contemptuous dismissal so frequently achieved by Ayn Rand, so why do adolescent females love her? And are vegetarians the moral, peace-loving, cruelty-free enemies of the meat eater? Or a bunch of kooks living in la-la land? When you’re done, you should really check out how cool this ceiling is. Or so says Steve Martin in the New Yorker. 

Today 2/13/07

The Death of the Free continues apace. While companies that ladled on the goodies without bothering to noodle out how they'd be in business tomorrow were first in line at the executioner's block, a host of amateur content providers are finally getting their turn. And while the winnowing of the weblogging ranks is more than welcome and too long in coming — we don't care what you had for breakfast, people, really we don't — it's a shame that the interesting sites, And while the winnowing of the weblogging ranks is more than welcome and too long in coming — we don't care what you had for breakfast, people, really we don't — it's a shame that the interesting sites, like Tomalak's Realm, have to die, too. Oh, sure, it may sound like the home of a lot of Vulcan fanfic, but the newly-dead TR was indispensable for anybody trying to keep up with the Web without going to the trouble of actually keeping up with the Web.

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