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Unsexy but Useful: American Heritage Dictionary iPhone App

April 9, 2010

This spring, it will be 10 years since I graduated from grad school. With all of the hoopla around the iPad, iPhone apps, Google Books and ubiquitous instantaneous information access in general, I keep imagining what it would be like to be  a grad student in English now. Back in 2000, I was thrilled to [...]

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So Much for That

April 6, 2010

“I don’t know how long this feeling is going to last, but the best thing the book did was to push me to really consciously treasure feeling fine. It’s very difficult to feel grateful for the absence of something, but feeling well is really the precondition for every pleasure.” – Lionel Shriver, talking about her [...]

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In honor of the iPad launch

April 1, 2010

This has been around a while I’m told, but it’s still funny. A good reminder that books were once, at one point, new technology (via DRS).

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Candied Pecans, Deborah Eisenberg

February 8, 2010

Serious Eats pulled a recipe for Candied Pecans (SCD legal!) from Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home and I’m baking them up now. It’s a snowy, cold night and the house smells like candy shoppe. Jeffery Eugenides’ love-story anthology, My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead — one of the best short story collections I’ve ever read [...]

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