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studs terkel (1912 - 2008)

"I'll give you to 99," said the doctor.

Studs Terkel died today at 96.

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free esha

Click here to learn more about what you can do to help American graduate student Esha Momeni, who has been arrested in Iran while doing research on the Iranian women's movement.

An American graduate student doing research on her master’s thesis in Iran has been arrested and is being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, where she is at risk of torture and other ill treatment, Amnesty International reported.

The student, Esha Momeni, who is enrolled in the School of Communications, Media, and Arts at California State University at Northridge, traveled to Iran two months ago to visit her family and to do research on her thesis project, a video documentary of the Iranian women’s movement.

On October 15, Ms. Momeni was stopped while driving in Tehran by people identifying themselves as undercover traffic-police officers. They said they were arresting her on suspicion of a traffic offense, and then took her to her parents’ home, which they searched. They seized her laptop and video footage of the interviews she had conducted. She was taken to the section of Evin Prison run by the Ministry of Intelligence.

Ms. Momeni, who was born in Los Angeles, has not been charged with any offense. Her family members were told she would be released quickly if they did not make her arrest public. But when they were not allowed to visit her and were told that no details of her case would be revealed until an investigation was completed, they went public.

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sunday short stack special election edition

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married with children

Posted by escapegrace at 9:34 AM lesson: never label anything 'botched crime story'

An unpublished work by Stanislaw Lem has been discovered, a "quasi-opera" Lem had been trying to find for decades.

Via 3qd

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while letterman might be a big fan of santa...

Awesome fake laugh alert at 2:44

Whatever...I like this guy:

Here's to being a little too awesome.

Posted by escapegrace at 10:42 AM 
without secrecy, nothing is possible

Did a young Milan Kundera play informer for the Czech police?

The reclusive Mr. Kundera vehemently denied the account.

Posted by escapegrace at 7:06 AM 
the salinger rumor was a fake out

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they too are compleatly malnecessarry

Posted by escapegrace at 12:46 PM absolutely nothing to get alarmed about

Don't let Bruce Weber write my obituary:

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edwardians in colour Posted by escapegrace at 8:31 AM the centre cannot hold

Last week, a Nobel Prize judge obnoxiously deemed all American literature to be "too isolated, too insular" to "really participate in the big dialogue of literature."

American writers were "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture," he told the Associated Press. "Of course there is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the centre of the literary world."

Literary cruise missiles immediately blasted off from the United States. "Put him in touch with me and I'll send him a reading list," said Harold Augenbraum, executive director of the US National Book Foundation.

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine, suggested it was the Swedish Academy which had been convicted by literary history of ignorance and bad taste. Some of the greatest, and most admired, writers of the past century were denied the Nobel Prize, he said – including several Europeans.

However, in an intriguing twist, Gawker reported the following from a "tipster": "I work for PEN in Britain, and there is a rumour here that [the above comments are] an attempt to cover up J.D. Salinger's being on the shortlist for this year's Nobel."

The winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced this Thursday.

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look, shiny object!

From the Lol folks, Pundit Kitchen takes on Election '08 and the world. I've seen this one out and about, but I love it more every day. Via YesButNoButYes

Posted by escapegrace at 10:34 AM tried to run from my distraction

Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard does his best Prince.

Posted by escapegrace at 10:29 AM 
some pre-debate palin links

Posted by escapegrace at 5:47 PM parsing poppycock

At Slate, a grammarian tries to parse Sarah Palin's sentences:

Posted by escapegrace at 8:55 AM west hollywood book fair Tents abound No idea. “Not So Secret Agent: Literary Agents Speak” Panel “The Changing Face of Book Culture in Los Angeles” Panel Carolyn Kellogg and Erika Schikel David Ulin, Louise Steinman, Andrew Tonkovich I think the LA Times Festival of Books needs couches. 
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52 books in 52 weeks 20. Best of the Web 2008 21. Tin House: Fantastic Women 22. Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon by Joyce Carol Oates 24. A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

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