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NY's Funniest Rabbi (Free subscription) | yesterday
"When I’m asked by fellow air passengers what I do for a living and reply, “I write poems,” the reaction is often a startled smile, as though they’re thinking Homer! Dante! Milton! (At least that’s what I’m thinking they’re thinking.) And then comes the lean-in, the furrowed brow, the voice thick with compassion as my new friend says, “But there...
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The Fill in the Gaps 100 Project (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Gah, I've just realised how long it's been since I last checked in here, and how slack I've been about both reading from my list and writing about what I've read. Crossing off my reads from the last couple of months just now, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I'd read a couple from my list by accident -- and then unpleasantly surprised to find that I couldn't remember anything about some of the...
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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
"It is much better to read books of travel than to travel oneself," truly said the greatest of travel writers, quoted by Pico Ayer in his appreciation — The Perfect Traveler . His Collected Short Stories, Vol. 4 were essential reading for me thiteen years ago, living in what was once British Malaya , the setting for many of the tales. Subscribe in a reader
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Gadling (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Halloween is right around the corner-- hope everyone has a great costume picked out already. If not, get crackin'! And check out our own Heather Poole's guide to creating a flight attendant Halloween costume . (Fellas, this is your chance to dress in drag unaccompanied by the judging eye of others.) Now it's time for our daily look at what's going on in the travel world today... The 13 sins of hostel...
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World Hum (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
He was cool, steady and prone to breaking rules. Pico Iyer celebrates the life and work of Somerset Maugham.
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Monday: The Painted Veil File this under movies not enough people went to see: 2006’s The Painted Veil is a haunting drama, based on the (excellent) W. Somerset Maugham novel. The film stars Edward Norton and Naomi Watts as a British couple in the midst of marital strife, who go to a small Chinese village during a cholera outbreak. We’re pretty sure it’s one of the more ingenious...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Few people have inherited their personal make-up from such an unlikely combination of forebears as Julian Hope, Lord Glendevon. One grandfather was a Scottish landed magnate and Viceroy of India, the other was the brilliant and waspish writer Somerset Maugham.
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Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk : Cinematic Crushes : - Gaze upon the angelic beauty of A Single Man 's Nicholas Hoult in this photo spread by his director Tom Ford ... and try to forget that he was the kid in About a Boy . Out Magazine chats with the Single duo in separate interviews here and here . - James Franco talks about being a stoner icon,...
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projectforty (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
I have a critic. This critic (he? she? I don't know) is concerned about all aspects of my blogging life: - my writing (I need lessons, apparently) - the time I spend blogging (too much) - the time I could spend doing something else (much more) - a tendency to knit means I am a lazy housewife (is there such thing as a lazy housewife?) - other peoples' support of my blogging (seemingly misguided) I can...
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2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- The subject of this post is euphony and the writer is a man who deals with it professionally. He's Charlton Griffin, a long-time 2Blowhards reader who creates audiobooks for a living (the link contains interesting biographical information). Our founder, Michael Blowhard, is a huge fan of Charlton's work, a catalog of which is here. (Don't forget to check out...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
In The Lotus Eater by Somerset Maugham, a banker chooses bohemian existence on the Isle of Capri over his job. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has a Capri that may bewitch you too — if you've got the bank. Yesterday, the PDQ TVR got an OMG from 75% of you. That was one of the very few to have snuck through Customs in order to enjoy the pleasures of American macadam, and got itself a hoontastic...
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book-a-rama (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Kids these days. They are worse than they ever were. We weren't like that. Yada, yada, yada. If you or someone else has said this, you need to read Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham. Philip Carey's parents dies when he is quite young and he goes to live with his uncle the minister and his wife. They have a plan for Philip: he'll go to school and also become a minister. Philip hates school, mostly...
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Irenic Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Here are some recorded dying words of noted people: St. John Chrysostom (347-407) was the most famous preacher of his day. He preached an Easter sermon read each year to this day in orthodox churches. His final sermon was also his last words. He took to the pulpit and said simply, Glory to God for all things! John Newton, former slave trader, turned minister who wrote Amazing Grace : I am still in...
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Moderato (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
By Jeremy Treglown Between 1913 and 1915, three part-autobiographical novels were published in London which would eventually be translated all over the world. In each, a clever, emotionally turbulent boy grows up, struggles with his family background and his sexuality, is attracted by the idea of being an artist and sets out into adult life. The [...]
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