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Other Economists in the Room

Jane Smiley | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: New York Times Magazine, No-Nothing, External Costs, Dickens, Marx, The Shock Doctrine, Hoover Institution, Trollope, Amazon, Palo Alto, Alan Greenspan, Finance, Keynes, Communist Manifesto, Proust, Oil, New York Times, Exxon, Frued, Kiev, Paul Krugman, Business News
Jane Smiley

I don't disagree with Paul Krugman, but he is missing out on some big issues that also need to be discussed and understood before we actually know what is going on in our world.

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Obama's Beach Books -- and Yours

Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: George Pelecanos, Outer Banks, Thomas Friedman, Obama Martha's Vineyard, The Way Home, Kent Haruf, Beach Books, Fareed Zakaria, Lush Life, Vacation Reading, Hot Flat and Crowded, Barack Obama, Tom Friedman, Elmore Leonard, David McCullough, Beach Reading, John Adams, Proust, North Carolina, Martha's Vineyard, Richard Price, Plainsong, Living News
Rick Horowitz

The thing about beach books -- or even "beach books" -- isn't the total tonnage of the entire pile. It's the glow of the glorious possibilities.

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Islamic Porn, Fake Diamonds And Racist Literature

Huffington Post Contributor | Andrew Marantz | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: Prieto, Andrew Marantz, Proust, International Literature, International PEN, Pen, Ee, PEN World Voices Festival, World News

When the novelist Jose Manuel Prieto left Cuba to spend a decade in Siberia, he could only fit a few books in his suitcase, so he packed several volum...

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The Obamas Are Making Us Smarter! Thanks Michelle & Barack for Stopping the Dumbing Down of America

Betsy Perry | Posted 05.21.2009 | Style

Read More: Dumbing Down, Proust, Obama Intelligence, Obamas Smarter, George Bush, Obamas, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, 100 Days, Style News
Betsy Perry

Listening to a president hard-pressed to get a sentence out without a goof, I believe we got lazy. But now we have a very smart first family and I don't want to be left behind.

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Those Books You REALLY Mean to Get Around to Reading...No, REALLY

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 03.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Hemingway, Smarmy, Humor, Smug, Satire, Books, Proust, William Faulkner, Reading, Humor and Satire, Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Comedy News
Jilly Gagnon

The publishing industry is not, contrary to rumor, dead, thanks to people like you and your grand plans. This year I'm going to finally get around to reading X.

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First Time Novelist Breaks All Rules with a Winner

Cynthia Kling | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media

Read More: How Far Is the Ocean From Here, Virginia Woolf, Writer Interview, Workshop, Book Deal, Amy Shearn, Writing, Fiction, How to Write, Authors, Writing Class, Surrogate Mother, James Joyce, Random House, Writer Interviews, Literary Agent, Susannah Prue, Yuppies, Proust, Book, Contemporary Fiction, PJ Mark, Surrogate, Media News
Cynthia Kling

"How Far is the Ocean from Here," by Amy Shearn has to be the weirdest, funniest saddest road novel I've ever read. A single 20-something agrees to surrogate for a pair of cozy yuppies.

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Primary Questions About The Making Of A "Who Is" The President Series; Or, Something Else That NBC, ABC and CBS Have In Common

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: NBC News, Rudy Giuiliani, Katie Couric, 2008 Election, CBS News, Nightly News Wars, Anchor Wars, Hillary Clinton, ABC News, Where's Kucinich?, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Proust, Media News

CBS News announced a new Presidential candidate interview series, beginning tonight, called "Primary Questions: Character, Leadership & the Candidates" wherein Katie Couric will pose ten Proust questionnaire-type questions to candidates.

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