Gig
by lz in Reading Archive on 30Jan2003
It's a shame word.com is now defunct, if this collection was anything like their webzine. Fantastically edited interviews with hundreds of people about their jobs: what they liked, what they hated, what made them get up in the morning every day. The huge range of possible careers opened up before...
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High and Mighty
by lz in Reading Archive on 29Jan2003
Keith Bradsher's expose of the inner workings of Detroit's Big Three colluding to keep SUVs free from the environmental and mileage requirements of automobiles (federal law put huge loopholes for SUVs to drive through, classifying them as light-trucks, when they weigh upward of 8000 lbs... the loophole originated out of...
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Roughing It
by lz in Reprints on 25Jan2003
ON SAN FRANCISCO CLIMATE: San Francisco, a truly fascinating city to live in, is stately and handsome at a fair distance, but close at hand one notes that the architecture is mostly old-fashioned, many streets are made up of decaying, smoke-grimed, wooden houses, and the barren sand-hills toward the outskirts...
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The Art of Travel
by lz in Reading Archive on 20Jan2003
A refreshing look at travelling, comparing expectations to reality, travel aided by literature and art. The last chapter (most fresh to my mind) dealt in realizing the beauty around your everyday life, insisting that you need not travel far (merely outside your front door) to be entertained by new thoughts...
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Journals
by lz in Reading Archive on 20Jan2003
Oh, Courtney. Why do you release your husband's very private journals to the public for a buck? I unabashedly devoured these unique journals, presented in Kurt's own handwriting complete with doodles and cartoons. The journal pages were color photocopied into the pages of this book. The first page was a...
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Maiden Voyage
by lz in Reading Archive on 19Jan2003
This is one that the weathered gent in Baja recommended, after brainwashing me into thinking I needed to join the seafaring life. Tania sailed in a 26' sailboat around the globe in 2.5 years, with the longest non-stop stretch being the trip across the Atlantic back to New York (48...
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Roughing It
by lz in Reading Archive on 19Jan2003
Discusses the stagecoach trip from Missouri to Nevada; lingers in Mormon country for awhile, attacks the text of the Book of Mormon for being hogwash (ripping off the Old testament but adding in modern elements, such as during the Ark rip-off, they had a compass...). Silver mining in Nevada, and...
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Top Picks of 2002
by lz in Top 10 Books on 16Jan2003
1. The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher 2. Being Dead by Jim Crace 3. A House for Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul 4. Desperate Characters by Paula Fox 5. You Can't Win by Jack Black 6. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray 7. Into a Desert Place by Graham MacKintosh 8....
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Smack dab in the middle of the 'Loin is the Geary Theater. This gem is an old triple decker theater built in 1910 that seats 250-ish people. Tuesday, after a somewhat disappointing dinner at The Slanted Door, we drew ourselves up into our most cultured posture and headed for the...
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Books I wanna Read
by lz in Reading Queued on 04Jan2003
The wall / Marlen Haushofer The Lover/Marguerite Duras (french) Violette Leduc Basketball Diaries/Jim carroll A Time to be Born/Dawn Powell Can you forgive her/Anthony Trollope personal history/katherine graham Secret Power by Marie Corelli pub 1921 Greener than you think by Ward Moore, 1947 Working by Studs Terkel The Pursuit of...
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The recently discovered Bookslut offers up this article to help you decide what goes and what stays when the shelves begin to overflow....
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