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  1. @booksquare - I liked "It's basically a 'come for the books, stay for the tankless water heater' strategy." :) http://bit.ly/1wlYgt7:41 PM Nov 2nd from web
  2. A. E. Housman's place is for sale - http://bit.ly/2NYblo7:31 PM Nov 2nd from web
  3. Everybody knows the secret / Everybody knows the score4:57 PM Oct 31st from UberTwitter
  4. "For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself." Virginia Woolf, "Montaigne"9:02 AM Oct 29th from web
  5. I think those who can drink [alcoholic beverages} and do not, fools; but I think those who cannot drink them and do, worse fools. Saintsbury5:00 PM Oct 28th from web
  6. 3am in Zurich, wishing I hadn't had that delicious espresso at dinner5:53 PM Oct 22nd from UberTwitter
  7. "the verb "Wyatting" ... describe[s] the practice of playing weird tracks on a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers" http://bit.ly/vUxXy3:56 PM Oct 22nd from web
  8. I love listening to Tom Schnab on Sunday afternoons ... http://bit.ly/2ythwn12:58 PM Oct 18th from web
  9. Found something cool to do when I'm in London next Friday http://bit.ly/g6tTm12:25 PM Oct 18th from web
  10. "i prepare a monologue [in French] to buy roast chicken, and deliver it mooingly to the grocer ..." http://bit.ly/29QlgN9:01 AM Sep 30th from web
  11. Steven Shapin's essay in the Sept 10 LRB is a must read for George Saintsbury fans (subs only, sadly) - http://bit.ly/o7WJ91:37 PM Sep 28th from web
  12. Frieze Mag: Homage to, meditation on, conversation with and analysis of the 50-year career of John Baldessari - http://bit.ly/4iAPhv10:46 AM Sep 28th from web
  13. RT @asheresque chapter 33 of my memoir http://tinyurl.com/ycha2e8 ... like a rock11:56 AM Sep 25th from web
  14. I have this love-hate thing with my job, but as an English major I do experience a secret delight at taken seriously by bankers6:59 AM Sep 25th from web
  15. I think Mark Sigal at O'Reilly mentions Walser in this piece just to mess with my mind - bit.ly/mhZ9Y5:57 PM Sep 23rd from web
  16. Historical photos of polar explorers, canine division: http://bit.ly/zfhBe12:48 PM Sep 23rd from web
  17. Forgot this amusing piece til I saw Binyavanga Wainaina in Berlin - "How to Write About Africa" - http://bit.ly/bpbsU8:19 AM Sep 23rd from web
  18. "Muriel Spark and her enemies," James Campbell in the latest TLS - http://bit.ly/FBsXF9:09 PM Sep 16th from web
  19. Nice to learn of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's latest, La Vérité sur Marie, which Lit Saloon mentions today - http://bit.ly/K7YCX8:58 PM Sep 16th from web
  20. Orthofer reviews the first English translation of Perec's Penser/Classer - http://bit.ly/P9DFn8:47 PM Sep 16th from web
  • Name Sam Jones
  • Location Chicago
  • Web http://www.golden...
  • Bio Perpetually reading and thinking about books, occasionally writing about them.
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