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In the Nov. 8 New Yorker Steven Shapin has an interesting review of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukh...
Tonight at rowing practice (indoors) we were to row hard for one minute, then not as hard for one minute, for a total of 40 minutes. After 2...
[Hitchens photo from Vanity Fair, by Jonas Fredwell Karlsson] My friend S sent me the link to this post from D.G. Meyers , author of The Ele...
I'm at a nonfiction writers' conference and all the buzz today was about a panel with David Shields that focused on his book, Realit...
I am often critical of Komen and once again I offer an apologia when I mention something good about it. The organization has a scholarship f...