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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Book Review Fortnight #1: "The Writer's Desk"

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Hamburger stand in New Haven, Connecticut        The middle of August. Ugh. I don't know about you, but this whole working thi...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

Uber CEO vows to steer company past recent troubles: ‘We will win this war’

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CEO Dara Khosrowshahi        “The Pickwick Papers,” set in 1827, begins with Charles Dickens’ kindly hero, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, “hi...
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Sunday, August 12, 2018

Come up with your own damn name

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      Nobody roots for Goliath. Few watch Star Wars and pull for the Empire. Size and power are assumed to have a great advantage, and th...
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Saturday, August 11, 2018

The Saturday Snapshot #1

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Children playing in Myanmar, 2018 (Photo by Ross Steinberg)      This blog is very me, me, me, and in one sense that's fitting: it...
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Friday, August 10, 2018

The urge to share didn't begin with Facebook

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Cody Stampede Rodeo, 2009        The summer I turned 17, my father dragged us all to Europe.       Which, as anyone who remembers...
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Thursday, August 9, 2018

A pie in the sky idea? The city would eat it up

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Burt's Pizza, with mushrooms and spinach      As a rule, I try not have any rules regarding the column.       Nothing beyond "...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Chicago's bloody weekend demands attention, but what good does it do?

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Slaughter of the Innocents, 1532, Bruges workshop of Pieter van Aelst, (detail) (Vatican Museum)      The worst part is how everyone wit...
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