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Why Don’t Preening Brooklyn Novelists Ever Write Books About This?

Robert P. Baird — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:33:52 +0000

From today’s Times:

Some experts say that emissions from airline travel are simply so large that it may be impossible to offset them.

“Buying offsets is a nice idea, just like giving money to a soup kitchen is a nice

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Elizabeth Kolbert on Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals”

Michael Robbins — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:34:09 +0000

Foer relates how, one night, he sneaked onto a California turkey farm with an animal-rights activist he calls C. Most of the buildings were locked, but the two managed to slip into a shed that housed tens of thousands of

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Bashing Brooklyn

Robert P. Baird — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:03:21 +0000

Pity the long lead. Quick on the heels of Michael Hirschorn’s Atlantic attack on “quirk” comes a similar effort by Melvin Jules Bukiet in this month’s American Scholar.

Hirschorn’s piece saw quirk everywhere: in books, movies, and…