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News Mon Jun 29 2009
New Yorker News on U of C
The New Yorker's Book Bench blog isn't really the place I expected the image of such shirts to jump out at me, as if leaping through the past to haunt me in my present (I wholeheartedly concur with Walker's summation of time spent at the University of Chicago as "bleak"). Nevertheless, two reported items are of note: the left-leaning locally published magazine The Baffler is coming back, and two undergrads are penning a book called Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books, Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less and have sold it to Penguin. Is the last item sad or ironic? The thing about the U of C is that you never really can tell the difference.
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Our first book of 2010 is described as "a comic, tragic masterpiece of an American family breaking down in an age of easy fixes." The Corrections is the winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction.
