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Lit Review (Nov 2009)

For the moment, I’m still writ­ing about books reg­u­larly at another weblog…  so here’s the last month (or so) of lit-related things that I’ve been read­ing and writ­ing about.

Read:

• “How to Walk to School: Blue­print for a Neigh­bor­hood Renais­sance” by Jacque­line Edel­berg & Susan Kurland
• Sound Unbound Edited by DJ Spooky
• “Zeitoun” by Dave Eggers
• cur­rently read­ing “5 Sto­ries of Music & Night­fall” by Kazuo Ishiguro

Wrote:

• Plight of The Poors (South Africa) — Mak­ing rec­om­men­da­tions based on the Ashraf Cassiem West­ern Cape Anti-Eviction Cam­paign event last week
• Party Like It’s 1989 — Tim­o­thy Gar­ton Ash is my favorite 1989  historian
• The People’s His­to­ri­ans — Rec­om­men­da­tions related to the Novem­ber Zinn & Zirin talk at UCHICAGO
• “The Other” By Ryszard Kapus­cin­ski — Thoughts on a writeup of a lec­ture by the inim­itable Kapuscinski
• Read­ing On This Date: Octo­ber 24… — Ran­dom blast from the past
• Ulysses S. Grant — Rec­om­men­da­tion of Bunting’s biog­ra­phy of Grant

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