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Meet the Press: Karen Schubert in Conversation with Glenn Sheldon of New Sins Pres
Glen Sheldon KS: I stopped by your table at AWP and it looked great – new titles, lots of spark. Do you go every year? Is it overall an effective event for a small…
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Alice Kaplan #4 on airports
A Moroccan dog and an Algerian dog meet up at the Paris airport. The Moroccan dog says to the Algerian dog, “So why are you going to Morocco?” The Algerian dog says: “To eat.”…
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Alice Kaplan #3, A moment of respite
In Brief (but not so brief….) On Thursday the newspaper announced that a new law would allow people to take paying guests in their homes. Will tourism be born again? There are cash machines…
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Reading Camus in Algeria Today. Alice Kaplan blog#2
After my lecture at the Glycines, a university professor talked about what Camus means to Algerians today. What she said may have been familiar to everyone in the room, but it was completely new…
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Roberto Unger
More than thirty years ago I lived for a year in Cambridge MA and spent time in the Harvard undergraduate library. A young man who looked kind of like a bullfighter was always there,…
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Alice Kaplan guest blogger on Algeria at 50.
Am writing from my room in the Glycines study center, where the sound of honking cars and screaming people is keeping me awake at 2 am. Tomorrow, if all goes according to plan, the…