Jonathan Lethem bookmarks "Kafka Was the Rage" by Anatole Broyard.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The invention of mechanical clocks created a kind of artificial time which permits greater efficiency, but cuts human beings off from the rest of nature.
Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at the University of California/Berkeley tells Anne Strainchamps about some wild energy alternatives that actually work.
Anthony Lane is the film critic for The New Yorker magazine. He tells Steve Paulson he loves both classics and trash - but only good trash.
Carole Case wrote a history of New York’s Jockey Club, the elite cartel that controls the thoroughbred stud book.
Gabe Hudson was a Marine Reservist whose unit served in the Gulf War. Hudson himself didn’t see combat, but based on his friends’ war stories, Hudson has written a book of surreal short stories.
Ever heard of gold-farming? Cory Doctorow talks about some ways people get ahead in multi-player video games.
Dilshad Ali talks about reading the Christian-influenced Narnia tales to her children.
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