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Monthly Archives: December 2025
Language is a virus
“Language is a virus from outer space.” — William S. Burroughs In a wonderful essay/book review in the New Yorker, Louis Menand wrote, “Quotations are in a … Continue reading
A Boy’s Life
The video below is fiction but based on the very real experiences of millions of Jewish children during the 20th century. Shown from the perspective of a teenage boy, Daniel, this animated short offers great insight into the insidious, gradual … Continue reading
The Hawking index is not what you think
Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg created an imaginative means of quantifying a metric that book publishers and writers had long suspected: most people don’t finish the books they buy. He called it the Hawking Index, named after Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon Kindle, Books, Donna Tartt, Infinite Jest, Reading
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How well do you know geography
When I was just a nerdy little kid, my friends and I would play a simple game the we called “Geography”. It entailed a player naming a country and the next player challenged to name another nation starting with the … Continue reading
Where in the world
I recently spotted the photo above on a random book blog. There was no attribution nor indication where or when the photograph was taken. However, I had the uncanny notion that at some unknown point in time I had actually … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Photography, Tourism
Tagged Amersfoort, Netherlands, Photography
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there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds
“A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical … Continue reading
And the 2025 lists begin
The staff of the New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction titles. “The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of books and meeting regularly to bicker — er, converse — about their … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Fiction, New York Times Book Review, nonfiction
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Travel is the only way we have of feeling that we are somewhere.
“Travel was once a means of being elsewhere, or of being nowhere. Today it is the only way we have of feeling that we are somewhere. At home, surrounded by information, by screens, I am no longer anywhere, but rather … Continue reading
Is Iceland Real
Last month, Icelandair launched a social media campaign that takes a tongue- in- cheek look at whether Iceland is “real” as opposed to AI-generated. The “Expedition Iceland” campaign was developed by social-first agency Kubbco in partnership with Icelandic agency Hvíta … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 