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  1. Anyone else curious about the Sarah Palin joke that Deepak Chopra shared with the Obamas? http://bit.ly/8MzUbI
  2. http://www.fastcapitalism.com/ Click on Issue 6.1 I have a little piece there on Suketu.
  3. Here's an agent saying "Here's a writer." http://bit.ly/4UonMs
  4. Mr Wood on the novels of Paul Auster http://bit.ly/6vYzX4
  5. @CherylStrayed Is there a lesson here? You don't tweet for a few days and come to report 100K+ words written toward book.
  6. RT @roncharles: So why don't University presses put prices on their books like everybody else?
  7. @nramind Kiran Desai's Guardian podcast--candid and charming, reaching for what's his name... http://bit.ly/503ulw
  8. @sputnyk because of theroux's trite yoni reference, of course. if he wins, they're to give him The Rumour of Calcutta.
  9. For slightly obvious reasons, my vote for the Bad Sex Award goes to Paul Theroux. http://bit.ly/38OVPr
  10. RT @mvatlarge: Taibbi on Palin, brilliant: http://bit.ly/72ETQA
  11. @Vasugi thanks for pointing us to @roncharles
  12. a quick multimedia display of unemployment http://bit.ly/3xsef0 (but how to bring it into the rec letters i am writing?)
  13. RT @SundeepDougal: Remembering Faiz http://bit.ly/QcYDy
  14. @daweiner I hear you, I hear you. But I wish I was cursing. My daughter was with me, and more than a bit terrified.
  15. @Vasugi @PialiRoy @Mrs_Grady It happened this afternoon, in the parking lot of the local grocery store.
  16. It always gets me--a stranger shouting in my face in the park or the parking lot, "You probably don't even speak English."
  17. For tomorrow's class, students writing on prisoner voices http://bit.ly/WfzcG
  18. "I wish I had written Lolita, or at least “Spring in Fialta.” Aleksandar Hemon http://bit.ly/1SdIzX (@PENAmerican)
  19. "Genius for all its individualism reeks of sociology." Shiv Vishwanathan on Sachin. http://tinyurl.com/ygjg3c9 via (@sardesairajdeep)
  20. @alexanderchee sheeesh!