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"Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height. That city of the confined and the controlled, Lockuptown, is now the second largest in the United States."
Gopnik on prisons (and crime, generally) in the New Yorker. I’d like to read the book he spends a third of the piece quoting from (you’ll know it when you get there).
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aaaaw yes, taking me back to the turn of the millennium, when the verse could be as quiet as you liked as long as the chorus was LOUD.
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“What would a metropolis in the Pacific Northwest look like if urban planners at the turn of the 20th century recognized and exploited the spatial potential of existing old growth trees rather than their perceived resource potential?”
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Oh hi, this is beautiful.
It’s a wonderful thing! And seems to be part of some manner of Horse Week on The Awl?? Horse Day, perhaps?
(via getthatlook)
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All the Books I Read in 2011
Here’s the big one. Here’s last year’s list. I did manage a few more this time, but didn’t hit 50. I blame…school? Asterisk means a reread, as with the movie list.
2011 BY THE NUMBERS
Fiction: 17
Nonfiction: 29
Poetry: 1
New Reads: 45
Rereads: 2
Comics: 6
Non-comics: 41
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Paper: 45
Screen: 2And here we go:
1 The City and the City; China Miéville - this is the first Miéville I’ve read, and it led indirectly to the Border Town project I worked on last summer. So it was hugely important for the tenor of my year. But as a book on its own merits, I found I enjoyed only the middle third of the book: after the setting was laboriously described, and before the plot got irritatingly ridiculous.
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Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
