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Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 18, 2015, 11:19:55 am ---I started the article on "soft censorship" last night and am looking forward to reading more, as I am particularly interested in this issue.

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I actually do remember reading that one. I thought it was quite good.

Jeff Wrangler:
While I don't ordinarily read the short fiction, I did read Alice McDermott's short story in the Aug. 24 issue, and I recommend it.

I wonder if it's somehow excerpted from a forthcoming book?

Jeff Wrangler:
I'm not following the statistics in Malcolm Gladwell's Aug. 24 article, but the take-away I am getting is that for a lot of poor people, it was actually a Good Thing to be forced out of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.

Front-Ranger:
Goodbye to Oliver Sacks. I really enjoyed his writings over the years.  :'( :'(

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 30, 2015, 09:56:35 am ---Goodbye to Oliver Sacks. I really enjoyed his writings over the years.  :'( :'(

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I had no idea Oliver Sacks was that old.

Meanwhile, I really enjoyed Elif Batuman's Aug. 31 article on archaeology in Istanbul. Imagine! People were farming on that site as early as 6000 B.C.E.! And their footprints were preserved!

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