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Friday Ephemera

The US in 1920s-30s… in color

Lorrie Moore’s opening paragraphs in her piece on ”Friday Night Lights”

For my cube: this mousepad?

All of Russian Lit Scholar Elif Batuman’s Amazon reviews… including a particularly effusive write-up of a book called “A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag”

Word-hoard from “The Shipping News”: 

waterweed, crenshaw, ruched, excoriation, saucisson, gyred, unguent, dolman, slovenly, tetter, doddering, atavistic, babushka, papillose, tuckamore, pumiced…

AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH SLIDE SHOW

Airplane vs. Zero Hour