I don't think I'll be waiting too much longer before I pick up her books
Novelist & memoirist Thrity Umrigar--who I've been meaning to read for a while, and who I believe currently lives in the Cleveland area (seems so!)--is guest blogging this week at the Powell's Blog.
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On television, shouting matches between tweedy, effete liberals and snarly, red-meat conservatives masquerade as news shows. The lines between information and entertainment are so blurred that we have coined a new term  infotainment. The grotesque reality shows are not realistic at all  unless you count surrealism to be a form of realism. The White House pays journalists to plant stories in the press and no one seems to care very much. And in the business world, euphemisms thrive  downsizing, restructuring, involuntary attrition. These euphemisms have one objective  to bury the truth.
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Posted by Darby M. Dixon III at 10:37 PM.
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wow, they've had some good guest bloggers over there. Barry Yourgrau is next week. I love his stuff.
8:21 PM, May 02, 2006
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