{"id":5535,"date":"2010-08-13T05:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2010-08-13T05:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T09:49:39","slug":"unrequired-reading-august-13-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-august-13-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: August 13, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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!<\/p>\n

Richard Jenkins gets a Random Roles interview<\/a>! (my favorite part, of course, is the Miller’s Crossing<\/em> story.)<\/p>\n

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MTA’s special NYC Subway map just for Jews<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Robert Caro gets ever closer to finishing his LBJ biography<\/a>! (and I get ever closer to starting it!)<\/p>\n

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K2, Skier 0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Twitter, please<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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“Comics will break your heart.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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Dance like there’s ants in your house<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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R.I.P. Tony Judt. In your honor, I will continue to do my best to speak in complete paragraphs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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