February 2012
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WatchThis five minute film moves in a maddening, convulsive way but it’s a valuable document of the landscape I lived in as a kid.
At around 1:05, the camera moves through the neon-lined entrance of an office building on Water Street, right near the South Street Seaport. That building is still there but the Logan’s Run design is gone. When we were small, my father would bring us to this...
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A quick note re: Franzen on Wharton →
Molly Young writes:
I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen’s essay on Edith Wharton, because I’m glad whenever anyone pays homage to the most heartbreaking novelist of all time. But I question the premise of the piece, which is that modern perceptions of Wharton’s character unfairly obstruct the enjoyment of her work.
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Watchfuturejournalismproject:
Ratio of Mobile to Fixed Line Phone Subscriptions Around the World
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Via Slate and the New America Foundation.
