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Go Home Weekend Reading, 7/24/09

THE PLANK JULY 24, 2009

Weekend Reading, 7/24/09

Jack Hitt on a war criminal who went new-age.

Clive James on the sexual harassment allegations and neverending controversy surrounding the Oxford Professorship of Poetry.

James Crabtree on a television station making noise in Pakistan.

Martin Stannard on Muriel Spark.

The Boston Review on anti-Semitism in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.

And, the most strange and disturbing piece you are likely to read this month.

--Isaac Chotiner

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Wow. Strange and disturbing indeed.

- frippo

July 24, 2009 at 10:54pm

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Yikes.  Shouldn't boneill or ratnerstar or adaglas be chiming in, claiming one of the other two to be the person in that story by now?

- cspencef

July 24, 2009 at 11:01pm

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cspencef:

They're too busy with their 2-D girlfriends.  Actually, I think ratner and bone are fighting over a pillow right this moment.

- bcbaird

July 25, 2009 at 2:28am

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It reminds me of the movie Lars And The Real Girl.  (2007)

If you have not seen it, you should consider watching it.  It's not what you think.  We really enjoyed it.

I

- kerFuFFler

July 25, 2009 at 10:15am

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You guys are jealous because she will Never. Leave. Me.

- boneill

July 25, 2009 at 1:04pm

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quick quiz...

Have any of you ever seen Nisan and jwl together, at the same time?

Think about it...

- thejauntyboulevardier

July 25, 2009 at 2:24pm

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