From: William Pate To: John William Felps Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:01 PM “All the generations of wonderful dead guys behind us. All the Confederate dead and the Union dead planted in the soil near us. All of Faulkner the great. Christ, there’s barely room for the living down here.” http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/03/sabers-gentlemen-remembering-barry-hannah.html Never read ‘im. [...]

If I were to start a gang, I would name it FM 3-24. Just FYI.

Really. Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat from an old issue of the New York Press. On an ideological level, Friedman’s new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. And this: On page 174, Friedman is describing a flight he took on Southwest Airlines from Baltimore to Hartford, Connecticut. [...]

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Samantha Power, of “A Problem from Hell:” America and the Age of Genocide fame, an insightful book studying America’s indifference to various genocides throughout the 20th Century, had a great book review in last Sunday’s The New York Times. While I started reading her review just because I respected her and wanted to read her [...]

This is the title poem in one of Vikram Seth’s books of poetry. I found it while randomly “surfing” books at my high school library — quite a few years ago now. It’s still probably my favorite poem. All You Who Sleep Tonight All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No [...]