Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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Reading

16 May 2005, 8:56 a.m.

What A Dame

I interviewed Diana Abu-Jaber for Saucy Magazine. She said funny and interesting things and you'd probably enjoy it.

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14 May 2005, 22:12 p.m.

Homes Update

I finished What You Should Know. The best story in the collection, which mulls Nancy Reagan's day-to-day life caring for Ronald Reagan during his decline, made me weep. Like A.M. Homes's compelling New Yorker article …

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11 May 2005, 12:59 p.m.

You Should Know That It Sucks

Things You Should Know by A.M. Homes is very, very depressing. So far, every story I've read has felt like a parody of the "nothing happens" New Yorker style of modern fiction. I now completely …

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06 May 2005, 7:26 a.m.

Oryx & Crake

If you have read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and you believe you understand the ending, please tell me your interpretation. I finished it last night and felt as though my copy were missing …

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04 May 2005, 12:36 p.m.

Bookishness

At Sam Weller's bookstore in Salt Lake City, as I bought books to read on the train ride back home, I considered getting a copy of Pilgrim's Progress to read for the first time. Then …

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27 Mar 2005, 10:42 a.m.

Litigious Fairy-Tale Queens

From The Fact-Checker's Bible by Sarah Harrison Smith, pgs. 74-75: Audiotapes of interviews can be a wonderful source [italics in original]. They offer excellent legal protection. In a trial, libel lawyer David Korzenik says, "the …

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11 Mar 2005, 15:48 p.m.

Question Marks

Unitarian Universalist jokes and a Satanism joke: "Satanism seems to be an elaborate prank designed to annoy Christians while having some good parties ... rather than a system one could practically live by." The classics …

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29 Jan 2005, 16:27 p.m.

The Spam King's Gambit

Last night I couldn't sleep and I read Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams, a frequent Salon contributor. For a reader at my level of net savviness, McWilliams spins a great tale of the intimate battles …

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17 Dec 2004, 11:01 a.m.

Metahumor Discovery

I have probably 150 Amar Chitra Katha ("immortal picture stories") comic books, and have been reading ACK for as long as I can remember. I learned most of my Indian mythology from ACK and press …

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10 Dec 2004, 13:13 p.m.

Media Matters

Tim Goodman turned me on to Arrested Development and it is awesome and I love it. Even Leonard likes it. Something aside from The West Wing and Star Trek that I can watch with Leonard! …

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