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By: Maryann Yin,
on 7/20/2015
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By: Jason Boog,
on 11/6/2012
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JacketFlap tags: William Shakespeare, eBooks, Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michiko Kakutani, Add a tag
By: Jason Boog,
on 4/9/2012
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By: Beth Kephart ,
on 11/8/2010
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This is the view through my office window, at just this moment. I look up; I see the sky. I look at my screen, and I see these words quoted in Michiko Kakutani's review of Letters by Saul Bellow:
And also: Yes.
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By: Maryann Yin,
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By: Jason Boog,
on 11/6/2012
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CNN has projected that President Barack Obama will win the 2012 Presidential election. We’ve collected links to five free eBooks that inspired Obama during his road to the Presidency.
In a 2009 essay, New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani wr0te about the books that inspired the President. Here’s an excerpt:
Mr. Obama’s love of fiction and poetry — Shakespeare’s plays, Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” and Marilynne Robinson‘s “Gilead” are mentioned on his Facebook page, along with the Bible, Lincoln’s collected writings and Emerson’s “Self Reliance“ — has not only given him a heightened awareness of language. It has also imbued him with a tragic sense of history and a sense of the ambiguities of the human condition quite unlike the Manichean view of the world so often invoked by Mr. Bush.
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By: Jason Boog,
on 4/9/2012
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JacketFlap tags: Michiko Kakutani, Writer Resources, Kevin Bacon, GalleyCat Reviews, Mark Dery, Jack Chick, Add a tag
This GalleyCat editor loves playing the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Game, connecting celebrities to actor Kevin Bacon in six connections or fewer. Would the same game work in the 21st Century literary world?
On the Morning Media Menu today, cultural critic Mark Dery (pictured) talked about his new collection of essays, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts. While pondering Christian comic creator Jack Chick and YouTube trends, Dery also outlined a version of the Bacon game that could be played with New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani.
Check it out: “The fact that the reviewer is instantly known to the reviewed creates a very odd kind of interaction. The tendrils of social media reach out rhizomatically and seem to connect everybody to everybody. We’re all in the Kevin Bacon game at this point–you know, seven degrees of Michiko Kakutani. Consequently, everybody who reviews you is a friend of a friend of a friend on Facebook or you retweeted them on Twitter or you rubbed elbows with them somehow in cyberspace. And that makes for peculiar social dance.”
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By: Beth Kephart ,
on 11/8/2010
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To fall into despair is just a high-class way of turning into a dope. I choose to laugh, and laugh at myself no less than at others.Yes.
And also: Yes.
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Beautiful photo.
I love that photo! Beautiful!
Lovely -- and congrats and yay on all your recent activities. I've been out of town and off line for a few days.
A Saul Bellow sky. A four-word poem and a photograph-- plus a great quote. I love everything about it.