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Today’s Prize for Best Unnecessary Journalistic Detail
Randy Kennedy wins the prize for best unnecessary journalistic detail in today’s Times. In a story about the Wassaic Project, an art gallery housed in a converted grain silo and run by a handful of young artists (one of whom I met at a birthday party in Providence in May), he gathers a quote from [...]
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On Reading Aloud, Inaccurately
As an antidote to professional audio book readers, I suggest artist Paul Chan’s sixteen hours’ worth of amateur recordings of texts by William James, Susan Sontag, Martin Heidegger, Lao Zi, Samuel Beckett, and others. [...]
The earliest telephone numbers in New York; area codes
The answer to one question in this week’s “FYI” column, in the Times‘s city section, is totally fascinating. Here is the question and response: Q: Given the ubiquitousness of cellphones, it’s easy to forget that telephones are historical artifacts, but I’ve often wondered: What is the oldest telephone number still in use in New York? A: Here’s an [...]
