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Vonnegut warns about mechanization depriving people of the meaning found in a good job.
A look at several neighborhoods in the borough reveal beautiful buildings by top-name architects.
The world from a keyhole perspective.
Perusing review copies of autumn books.
Happy warriors, gambling, Shohei and traffic-jammers. What year is it (#584)?
Even though Iosepa lasted only 25 years, this obscure corner of the world endures as a symbol of Polynesian culture, spirit, and the perseverance of pioneers.
Yorkville is reknowned as a German neighborhood, but it didn't start out that way.
Questioning divine omnipotence and omniscience.
It was a difficult year in New Jersey, but the tomatoes and Brother Doug helped.
A look at Prospect Heights.
Spilling paint and becoming the problem on a construction site.
From Amstel to Arverne to Berrian and more.
It’s a Helvetica of a Wingding world.
There are about 200 books there that I haven't been allowed to read.
A review of The Making of a Marxist Philosopher by Sean Sayers.
We tell stories to patch the holes in our heads. Stuff is always leaking out.
More than friends with minis in Cincinnati.
They tried to warn us long ago, but no one heeded the call.
Peter Gizzi’s cento is (somebody’s) genius.
Working at a record store from 1983–84, the early days of the compact disc.
Another day in Anytown, USA.
The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and many more talks about his life and career in this interview aired on July 22, 1979.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
A compilation of appearances by writers on the talk show.
The actor and director talks about his new memoir The Friday Afternoon Club on CBS Sunday Morning.
The author on his retrospective anthology The Time of Our Time.
The prolific author talks to Brace Belden and Liz Franczak about grief, compounds, our horrid present, and helping other people.
The late author talks about short fiction, his disinterest in writing, and his distrust of computers.
The author talks about his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
I’ll skip St. Louis, but never Chicago. What year is it (#489)?
