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October 28, 2009 – 9:27 am

the museum of innocence

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk’s new novel, “The Museum of Innocence”, tells the story of Kemal, the son of a wealthy Istanbul businessman, and the forbidden affair that derails his life, which is relatively standard stuff. What is fascinating, though, is that Kemal’s obsession with the affair leads him to collect an assembly of objects from [...]

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September 29, 2009 – 12:17 pm

it’s in ohio

[Black volcanic sand desert in Iceland, via flickr user meiburgin.] Back in August, while on vacation, I read David Foster Wallace’s first novel, The Broom of the System.  A pair of geographies he invented, the suburb of East Corinth and the Great Ohio Desert, particularly fascinated me, as they demonstrate how ordinary ideas (the urban [...]

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