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  • Choices

    Since I’m starting grad school and parking and transportation around central campus is a pain, I decided to start biking it. Only problem: My very good and nice and fabulous Bianchi Lynx bike is still in San Francisco because I had problems attaching it to the Jeep securely enough for a 3,000-mile trip to Michigan…

  • Irritating Jacket Blurb of the Month

    This appears on the front cover of the hyped-to-death Karen Joy Fowler novel The Jane Austen Book Club (Miss Austen would be most amused by her post-mortem fan club; or maybe mortified). What does this even mean? “If I could eat this novel, I would.” — Alice Sebold

  • Shorter <em>New York Times Book Review</em>

    Reading it so you don’t have to ….. A full-page ad hawking Toni Morrison’s new line of handsome paperback editions of her novels “with deeply personal forewords reflecting on each work.” (I’ve never been able to finish the first chapter of a Toni Morrison novel. Maybe it’s just me.) An ad for a new book…