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James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and five translations from the Italian (the most recent being Dino: The Life and Films of Dino De Laurentiis and Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror). He has contributed to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, the Nation, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He also written about jazz, pop, and classical music for Salon, The Oregonian, and WBUR Online Arts, and is currently editor-at-large at The Columbia Journalism Review. He blogs at www.housemirth.blogspot.com.
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Aldo Buzzi, Writer and Filmmaker, Dies at 99 »
Posted by: 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Aldo Buzzi, 99, an Italian intellectual who began his career as an architect, then turned to filmmaking alongside directors including Federico Fellini, and in his ...
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NYT Flashes Confusion in HFT Reporting »
Posted by: 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
For a brief moment last week, “flash orders” ranked #2 on Google Trends, just below “cash for clunkers car list” and a few spots above ...
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Ripeness Is All: Aldo Buzzi Turns 99 »
Posted by: 4 months, 4 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Aldo Buzzi greeted us at the door to the apartment in a red cardigan, white shirt, tortoise-shell glasses. I had wondered what sort of shape ...
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House of Mirth: Jewish shouting: the last gasp, the club mix »
Posted by: 5 months ago in News
I previously submitted a newspaper article about the first, diminutive Jewish Shouting mix. This blog post includes a link to the deluxe, extended version--including, about ...
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Philip Roth features on "booty-shaking" dance track »
Posted by: 6 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
It's already being tipped as "the ringtone of choice among hip literary types this summer": a short dance mix featuring Philip Roth doing some ...
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Danny Goldberg on the Digital Music Revolution »
Posted by: 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Steve Knopper’s book “Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age” is an entertaining, well-written attempt to chronicle ...
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A Different Iranian Revolution »
Posted by: 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
WE look over this wall of marching people to see what our friends in the United States are saying about us. We cannot help it ...
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Thanks, for nothing »
Posted by: 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
There is a new kind of queue in banking, and it is not formed of terrified depositors trying to withdraw their savings. Instead banks are ...
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CJR: Where Credit Is Due »
Posted by: 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
I can’t imagine there’s a better vehicle to tell the story of credit derivatives--the financial instruments that laid the groundwork for the financial ...
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Propeller Week In Review: Greatest Hits Edition »
Posted by: 7 months ago in News
Step right up, folks, for the Greatest Hits Edition of the Week In Review. Instead of focusing on stories from the last seven days, we ...
(read more)Read (1630) | Share | Discuss (147) | Read Full Story at blog.propeller.com
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Abortion Doctor Shot to Death in Church »
Posted by: 7 months, 1 week ago in News
George Tiller , a Wichita doctor who was one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions, was shot to death on Sunday ...
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Propeller Week In Review: May 28, 2009 »
Posted by: 7 months, 1 week ago in News
This week, the Propeller community had plenty to say about Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. A few members expressed doubts about her ...
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Propeller Week In Review: May 22, 2009 »
Posted by: 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
After cracking the whip at Chrysler and accepting a degree at Notre Dame, Barack Obama was back in the spotlight this week at Propeller. Some ...
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Propeller Week In Review: May 15, 2009 »
Posted by: 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Not for the first time, Rush Limbaugh occupied center stage at Propeller over the last week. Quite a few members agreed with PsychoHosebeast's characterization ...
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Hot "Stuff": A Viral Video Hits the Classroom »
Posted by: 8 months ago in News
On Sunday the New York Times ran a story about Annie Leonard, who is fighting a one-woman crusade against excess consumption and waste. Her primary ...
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