Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Some interesting thoughts about Hillary, about Mississippi’s special election-- on the Diane Rehm talk show this morning. Thomas Mann, Brookings: The West Virginia primary, because it's associated with Senators Obama and Clinton, garners the lion's share of attention with the...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
I've been slowly making my way through Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. Despite recently reading proust, Grass, and Kenzaburo Oe, I can pretty easily say that this is the most challenging read I've embarked on in a long time. I've found myself retreating to the safe harbor of Bakhtin just to take on something a little less bracing. Other than a too-early read of Death in Venice, this is...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... Cerf A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.--Thomas Mann
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
As drivers watch the dollars add up at gas pumps across metro Detroit -- as much as $4.09 a gallon for regular at one station -- they're starting to trim their budgets and change their lifestyles.For some, that means driving smarter, taking fewer road trips and even buying off-brand groceries to cut costs.Friends and roommates Larry Justice, Michael Fountain and Thomas Mann, all of Inkster,...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Friends and roommates Larry Justice, Michael Fountain, and Thomas Mann all of Inkster, were carpooling today, headed for Shelby Township. The three were planning to apply for work at a security company. These would be second jobs for all three. Mann, 18, spent $20 to put 4.73 gallons in a 2004 Mercury Sable, which was almost empty. “I’m about to write to the president,” Fountain,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... around 130 authors whose works went up in flames, among them Bertolt Brecht, Sigmund Freund and Thomas Mann. On Saturday, Berlin's renowned Humboldt Library and the Cervantes cultural institute of Spain were to joint hosting readings and recitals in Berlin from works which the Nazis denounced as un-German. The event was taking place on August Bebel Platz, the square where some 40,000...
