Jacob Bacharach
@jakebackpack
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Novelist. Critic. Books about crooks.
Extended Greater Appalachia
Joined May 2009
Il credo del cannibale.
I really don’t understand why humans care so much about recovering the dead bodies of their loved ones.
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imagine being a chinese soldier freshly parachuted into appalachia and meeting one of these specimens for the first time terrifying
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My biggest weakness? Let me think about that, that's a great question. I guess, if I had to say, I guess I'd say that it's that good things happen to me and I do everything right just a little *too* much, sometimes.
Today my son asked me if I’d had plans to get a high-paying job when I was young and I told him no. I had big hopes and dreams for myself: from the age of 3 or 4 I knew my plan: to get married and have a baby. That’s all and everything I wanted,
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I say to all my boys, je leur dis, mes gars, you gotta be
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BROKE: ah Paris, ville lumière, city of Voltaire and Bergson, Claudel and Ravel, Degas, Sartre, Napoléon and Foch, Josephine Baker and Gertrude Stein... WOKE:
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SCOOP: After decades away, Rachel Maddow has returned to the Catholic Church. She credits Pope Francis and Pope Leo for her rejoining the faith. She believes Leo can both soften hearts and sharpen minds during his pontificate.
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Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News' Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
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I need a movie where the villain actually won
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Big deal. Any true Pittsburgher can do this in shorts after 10 beers and 11 shots at Gooski's. And with, at best, two legs.
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Red Smith
is there any famous nonfiction writer who didn't just make shit up
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The funnier part of this is not the philistinism, but that it is entirely made up.
My university had a Great Books curriculum and one of the last books on the syllabus was ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and I told my professor that we were only reading it because they wanted to add a woman author to the list and he fidgeted uncomfortably because it was obviously true
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Seems fitting that the Long 19th Century would see a return of bimetallism.
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The fundamental mistake here is that there are really only about 2,000 people in America who know who Olivia Nuzzi is, and 50% of them got review copies.
NEW: Journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s new book “American Canto” sold only 1,165 hardcover copies in its first week on the shelves, according to new data compiled by tracker NPDBookScan. A publishing insider called it a “publishing debacle of epic proportions.”
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Orcas are people and dolphins are dogs. https://t.co/MtrbwIdJfa
washingtonpost.com
Scientists say the aquatic allies were observed apparently relying on one another to find prized prey: large adult Chinook salmon.
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A genuinely wondrous possibility is that we are witnessing a domestication event. Folks!
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Further speculations on a hypothesis
If you read past the Times' warmongering militarism, this is the tale of a flexible hypercapitalist industrial and mercantile empire vs. a sclerotic semiautocratic increasingly regional wannabe autarky that we . . . might recall from the 20th century.
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Soviet America vs. trade-surplus China - calling @yashalevine
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If you read past the Times' warmongering militarism, this is the tale of a flexible hypercapitalist industrial and mercantile empire vs. a sclerotic semiautocratic increasingly regional wannabe autarky that we . . . might recall from the 20th century.
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But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon. O, 'tis most sweet When in one line two crafts directly meet.
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