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- The Caustic Cover Critic offers up some lovely Patricia Highsmith covers, old and new: , 7:04 PM Nov 5th from web
- Then he asked about "unscrumptious" corporate donors. Both malapropisms seemed just right to me.5:25 PM Nov 3rd from web
- Got phone-polled tonight for IL comptroller race. Guy asked about "corruptions" that receive tax breaks, then ship jobs overseas.5:25 PM Nov 3rd from web
- In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.--Rex Stout8:12 AM Nov 3rd from web
- I've said it before, but it bears repeating as I proofread 2nite: A 1-martini proof is the best proof; a 2-martini proof is no proof at all.3:05 PM Oct 30th from web
- I prefer translating to criticism, because you are hardly required to judge anything when you translate.--Haruki Murakami, Paris Review11:03 AM Oct 30th from web
- I was interested in the real future that I could see approaching, and less in the invented future that science fiction preferred.--Ballard5:12 AM Oct 30th from web
- Josh Levin's got the best recap so far of last night's World Series game at Slate: 6:26 AM Oct 29th from web
- Comic characters are a kind of stabilizer to my mind; a sense of humor is a very stable thing. You have to be cool to be humorous.--Murakami10:27 AM Oct 28th from web
- Scary stories send me shivering to . . . Edmund Wilson? He wrote about them in the New Yorker in '44: 5:56 AM Oct 28th from web
- I don't get it. This maniac night runs through trees, like it don't know where to get off.--Luc Sante, "Sans-Souci"7:04 AM Oct 27th from web
- Glad digital printing allows Picador to keep @ Publish and Perish in print. Less glad that it drops initial caps for each chapter.5:06 AM Oct 27th from web
- There are terrible spirits, ghosts, in the air of America.--D. H. Lawrence7:03 PM Oct 26th from web
- Song's times and seasons are its own / Its ways past finding out. / But more and more it fills the earth / and triumphs over doubt.--Frost5:38 PM Oct 22nd from web
- Chicagoland Pessoa fans! Philip Graham talks about living in Lisbon tonight at DePaul: 10:44 AM Oct 22nd from web
- RT @ Stop Smiling/Chicago Public Radio event TONIGHT at the Heartland Cafe in Roger's Park: 6:56 AM Oct 22nd from web
- Everywhere, everywhere. And the earth is sprouting things we do not dare look at.--Lydia Davis, "Smoke"11:43 AM Oct 21st from web
- These were ordinary miracles; there were also ordinary ghosts. You found these things out as you got older.-StephenKing 8:34 PM Oct 20th from web
- The natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk imagine.--Julian Hawthorne, "Absolute Evil"6:33 PM Oct 15th from web
- Let the shivers begin! James Hynes has put up a new list of favorite ghost stories: 10:29 AM Oct 14th from web
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- Name Levi Stahl
- Location Chicago
- Web http://www.ivebee...
- Bio I write about books, and the answer to the question, What am I doing right now? tends to be, Reading. Thus my feed.
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