- A “blogbook” on the financial crisis. The table of contents.
- Essential Bolaño: The Five Most Unskippable Passages in 2666
- 50 years worth of Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” is now online for free all the way back to that very first strip. (via)
Curiosities
You Know AP and Chicago Style. Now learn CIA style.
Among the recommendations and rules listed in the CIA’s official style guide: favor the active voice; keep sentences and paragraphs short; boats should not be referred to with gendered pronouns; and the “w” in “Vietnam war” should be lower case because war wasn’t officially declared.
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Edan Lepucki’s Other People Pod
Our own Edan Lepucki sits down with Brad Listi for an Other People Podcast. If for nothing else, listen to them discuss Facebook addiction. Their discussion starts around the eleven minute mark. (P.S. you should also check out both Edan and Brad’s Year in Reading posts.)
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