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Last logged in: Feb 24, 2008
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Age, Status: 28, Single
School:
University of Chicago
Currently reading:
The new War and Peace, The Stillborn God, the Russians, Bellow, Larkin, Roth, Musil, Houellebecq, James Wood.
Currently listening:
Beirut, Well-Tempered Clavier, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene
Currently watching:
30 Rock, Extras.

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""There goes another novel."" on David Gelernter's Precious Bodily Fluids
12/14/07 11:02 pm
Gelernter's tortured prose and cringe-worthy nostalgia make him easy to dismiss - which is unfortunate, since there's a serious and respectable idea buried beneath his verbiage. From Rousseau to Balzac, Freud and beyond, unexpressed ...
"Giù le mani da Leo Strauss!" on Why They Really Hate Leo Strauss
08/31/07 3:09 pm
For you skeptics out there, Mark Lilla had a superb two-part piece in the New York ...
"As the saying goes..." on Loathing the Sopranos
07/25/07 5:55 pm
De gustibus non est disputandum, right?Well, no. As Pauli put it, you're not even wrong. 
"And let's not forget..." on Why We Can't Quit
07/03/07 7:31 pm
...Cigarettes are sublime.As Klein writes, there is "a darkly beautiful, inevitably painful pleasure that arises from some intimation of ...
"Tag check" on The Best Sopranos Obit
06/18/07 5:30 pm
It's Emily, not Martha.I've been forwarding this around all day - far and away the best retrospective out there. Spot-on.
"My favorite story" on The Jewels of Pakistan
06/18/07 4:05 pm
I heard it's apocryphal, but so what..."No man should be killed for what he writes," said Rushdie, "but for Dan Brown I can make an exception."
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