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Eliot Weinberger
lrb.co.uk
The lecture’s audience consists of bald solid thick-wristed men over 50 who all look like the kind of guy who rises to CEO a company out of that company’s engineering dept. instead of some fancy MBA program.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
EV likes to emphasise its search for “moonshot” projects – high-impact ways of changing the world. Take, for example, Recidiviz, a criminal-justice non-profit that Cowen funded. It has helped free 70,000 parole-eligible people, using data tools, who would otherwise have remained under supervision. Yet if you browse the winning projects, it becomes ... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
Clifton Walker
@cliffwalker
The Cry of Jazz—was based in part on an unpublished book by Bland entitled The Fruits of the Death of Jazz.
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
