Unrequired Reading: August 13, 2010

I may be questioning/reconsidering what I’m writing and why, but that doesn’t mean I can’t share some fun/awesome links with you, dear readers! Enjoy!

Richard Jenkins gets a Random Roles interview! (my favorite part, of course, is the Miller’s Crossing story.)

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MTA’s special NYC Subway map just for Jews!

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Robert Caro gets ever closer to finishing his LBJ biography! (and I get ever closer to starting it!)

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K2, Skier 0.

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Twitter, please!

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Comics will break your heart.

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Dance like there’s ants in your house!

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R.I.P. Tony Judt. In your honor, I will continue to do my best to speak in complete paragraphs.

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And speaking of intellectuals and mortality, here are two interviews of Christopher Hitchens discussing his cancer treatment with Jeffrey Goldberg and Anderson Cooper. I like the Cooper one more, even though I think it’s a little slack to wear sneakers to an interview.

One Reply to “Unrequired Reading: August 13, 2010”

  1. Hitchens warrants a mention in your Badass column too.
    Do you remember the part in God Is Not Great where he defaced a pro-Nazi sign in a tough neighbourhood in Lebanon and got a kicking?

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