February 2012
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More Recommended Reading →
tetw:
from Front of Book
Another selection of top-quality essays from writer, reviewer, blogger and lit-spotter Kate Silver, a.k.a. Front of Book:
My Bird Problem by Jonathan Franzen Now That Books Mean Nothing by Nell Boeschenstein The Lynching of Claude Neal by Ben Montgomery The Syncher, Not the Song by Douglas Wolk Writer’s Writer and Writer’s Writer’s Writer by Julian Barnes
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“At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon...”
– John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 - NYTimes.com —This may be the only use of “apprenticed to a pirate” outside of Gilbert & Sullivan. Better still, it’s non-fiction.
