March 2011
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morsby-deactivated20120327 asked: If you're still looking for excellent David Mitchell (author) quotes, may I suggest the mind-blowing 'Gulls...' passage from "The Thousand Autums of Jacod de Zoet," what I personally believe to be one of the greatest paragraphs ever written?
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/290141
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/290141
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“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any...”
– David Mitchell (author), Cloud Atlas (via warwiththeeskimos)
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utternutter asked: Hi there! Just wanted to let you know that on your recent post, the apostrophe quote attributed to *author* David Mitchell was actually written by *British actor and writer* David Mitchell of "Peep Show" and "That Mitchell and Webb Look" fame.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/13/david-mitchell-comment-is-free
I long for the day when...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/13/david-mitchell-comment-is-free
I long for the day when...
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“Apostrophes, however, I love with all my heart. I support the correctly used...”
– Tomorrow: We listen back to interviews with actor Jon Hamm and author David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.)
Quote from David Mitchell (via furtivelittlefeelings)
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Fresh Air Offices, 11:02AM
Mel: Do you think we could autotune tomorrow's show?
Coworker: No.
Mel: What if we subtly played Rebecca Black underneath the interviews as an audio bed?
Coworker: No.
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Public Media Peabody Recipients 2011
Almost every link goes to the full performance. Enjoy!
Radiolab (their tumblr)
Great Performances: Macbeth (PBS)
Sherlock: A Study in Pink (David Bianculli review)
Lucia’s Letter (WGCU)
LennonNYC (Cynthia Lennon on Fresh Air)
Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation
Independent Lens: Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indians
The Promised Land (APM)
Covering Pakistan: War,...
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davidfarre asked: Noticed Friday's podcast wasn't available on Monday morning. (Found it on Tuesday morning.) And I don't see Monday's podcast now. What's up?
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“I can’t help thinking that a reason that nobody talks about intervening in...”
– Journalist Peter Godwin, on watching NATO and the U.S. intervene in Libya
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From the archives: The Detroit Cobras specialize...
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Fresh Air Offices, 2:04 PM
Coworker: I just preinterviewed a guy about sawing a body in half.
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social media strategy?
Do the people on here who use Tumblr for work have a strategy?
The reason I ask is because I don’t think I have a strategy — and I think that’s why Tumblr works so well. And a person just called and asked what my strategy was and I had to admit that there isn’t one and I Tumblr when I need to take a 30-second mental break.
The way I think of Tumblr is that it’s kind...
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“Politicide is the practice of wiping out an entire political movement. The...”
– An excerpt from The Fear by Peter Godwin, tomorrow’s guest.
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Reading Material To Last A Lifetime (Or A Few... →
How do I know that a) people are still reading (and lots) and b) we have some really smart Tumblr followers?
Check out everyone’s latest reading material. This should keep everyone, myself included, in book heaven for a few months-weeks-and/or-days. Enjoy!
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Totems: Impossibly Tall Towers Of Stuff : The... →
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“Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.”
– James Salter (via theparisreview)
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What Are You Reading?
Anything good? We’ll make a list!
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