December 2011
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Doctor.
How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman. SOOOOO EXQUISITELY TAILORED TO THE NPR/NEW YORKER CREW. YIKES. So preciously tweedy and proper and bougie and hedged in ambivalence but in that sort of hemming and hawing way that seems like treading water. Lacks the killer instinct that I guess appeals to The Youths? I mean, don’t get me wrong. Appreciate it, in its own measured way, and it’s...
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Lee Friedlander and Don DeLillo. Think about it!
No, actually I thought about it. I don’t know how that makes me feel. But somehow? On a strict diet of non-fluids, like 24 hours after a horrible, involuntarily 3 days of master cleansing? They seemed to go together. Like crazy. And like, complement each other and bring out each others’ textures and flavors of like, um, saffon and...