August 2010
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Big book
Farrar Straus Giroux is about to make boodles with Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. I just ordered it for my iPad: 500+ pages for under $15.
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Don't miss the NYTimes mag story "Does Your...
http://nyti.ms/c27faz Genre, directions, colors are all different. Intense but fascinating!
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My birthday officially begins!
My family just gave me an iPad! Wow. And just in time for the cruise. I’ve already downloaded some books, and a few movies are next…
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Cruisin' on a summer afternoon...
W. and I are headed off on our first cruise tomorrow—up the coast of New England with stops in ports large and small (Newport, Boston, Bar Harbor, St. John, Halifax). Many of my friends have expressed shall we say, doubt about this enterprise. But how bad could it be? (Slide show of tidal waves, barfing, buffet crowds, bad Vegas shows, tiny cabin room, kids everywhere, claustrophobia passes...
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D.I.Y. city
Detroit’s been on my mind since we released The Purples. What a great city it once was, what a wreck it is today. Been reading the dispatches about Detroit from TIME magazine this past year, which give a more well rounded vision of the city. And today in the NY Times there’s a long, prominent article about how young artists are migrating to the city and trying to transform the wreckage...
