Albert Rolls
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My work is as lucrative as it is glamorous. "I am not one of them./ I was sent by God to torment/ myself, my family, everyone/ whom it's a sin to torment."
Nowhere Zen New Jersey
Joined November 2012
Final cover. (I still prefer my own design, but I have no training so skepticism is reasonable.) https://t.co/xb4TnEhky4
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I going to try get insurance for the next year. Might not be the best time but I guess it's time to admit that it's a little late in the game to skip that expense.
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Have gotten the new Dewitt; even the negative takes on it make me want to read it.
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Are people forgetting Willy Loman? I have had to explain who he is a number of times in the last week.
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Headed for the White House bathroom that is apparently getting redone? A solid gold toilet is up for auction with a $10 million starting price - ABC News
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Sotheby’s has announced it will auction a solid gold toilet, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan called “America.”
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We waited too long to buy a pumpkin, and none we left. We bought eatable pumpkins instead, thinking it couldn't be worse than the turnip we used last year. The result is pie, not a jack-o'-lantern.
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My kid wants to do the Pumpkin-carving thing with me this year. He's 18, and it's fine. But it still seems so weird to me that he wants to hang out with his family. I couldn't get far enough away.
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all-time great review from someone who doesn't know what “pious” means and refuses to look it up
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Huge news for US literature. A new Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10
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The problem is not the poor kid who gets $6 a day in food stamps. The problem is the Walton family, worth $469 billion, & Jeff Bezos, worth $247 billion pay wages so low that their workers need food stamps. The real welfare queens are the billionaires who pay starvation wages.
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By the way, the timeline for this review was nice. It took five weeks from the book's arrival at my door and the review's appearance, super fast for an unsolicited essay.
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I have a new essay out, thanks to 3:AM.
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Leah Abrams with a knock-out flat brilliant analysis of the literary manosphere, “bro” coding, and the literary masculine complaint complex the @clereviewbooks today: https://t.co/27JTyGYDAr
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This essay, by the way, is why I haven't left fictional Milwaukee.
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I could just not cite Of Grammatology. The essay (about a novel) I'm working on seems to want me to argue that an primary figure, novelist (a character), serves as the supplement to a, traditionally speaking, secondary figure, critic (also a character).
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Was the Of Grammatology translation revised a second time, for the 40th Anniversary text? I'm apparently getting drawn back into this work. Do I need to get this revised translation? (My copy was picked up in 1992, I think it was.)
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Against the Day has the best sentences.
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Job ad: "A strong internal candidate has been identified for this position, however, we are still accepting applications from other qualified candidates." Translation: Don't bother. Snide note (the position is editorial): A semicolon, not a comma, belongs before that "however."
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