Gawker's Emily went to the N+1 party celebrating their new pamphlet about how books do furnish a room but not a dorm. She came away with this (what I'd call an apercu if I weren't afraid the Talking Points Memo people were still lurking around here):

These people's other regrets include having read Paul de Man before Wordsworth and Deleuze before Proust and having read Frederic Jameson instead of Perry Anderson. The pamphlet is 126 pages long. However, it only takes 5 minutes and 52 seconds to listen to the song "Common People" by Pulp in its entirety.

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