February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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“Last year, the N.Y.P.D. recorded more than 600,000 stops; 84 percent of those...”
– Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. - NYTimes.com (via nickdouglas)
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Did ABC's The Middle Just Spoof the National Book...
On tonight’s episode of The Middle, a high school girl is elated to find out she made the cheerleading squad until - oops! - the mean girl squad leaders inform her that their advisor made a mistake in calling her. The dialogue exchange below should be familiar to those who followed the whole Chime/Shine imbroglio for this year’s National Book Awards YA nominations:
“But of...
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November 2011
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“You seriously think that you can out-insult me? I’m from Lima Heights. I was...”
– Santana, Glee (“Mash Off”)
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Pantheon Books: Peter Behrens on Remembering the... →
pantheonbooks:
Just in time for Veterans Day, Peter Behrens, author of the upcoming The O’Briens, has written a piece for The Huffington Post:
I find much to admire in their attitude but there was also a price to pay for all that silence about the disorienting experience of modern war. As they grew old,…
Reading The O’Briens now, it’s fantastic.
