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The Link 5.15.09: Star Trek’s Power, Carson on TGC, and the Millionaire Tire-Changer
1. Caught a great cultural insight in Anthony Lane’s hilarious New Yorker review of the new Star Trek movie: “[J. J. Abrams] is the perfect purveyor of fictions to a generation so easily and instinctively jaded that what it craves, … Continue reading
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The Moral Vision of a Tormented Man: The New Yorker Remembers Author David Foster Wallace
The New Yorker has just published a piece about the writer David Foster Wallace entitled “The Unfinished.” It details a depressed man who grasped for a moral vision and a lasting joy. Sadly, it seems, he found neither, as the … Continue reading
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On Success and Hard Work: Interesting Books I Want to Read
1. Geoff Colvin’s Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everyone Else. Colvin is the senior editor of Fortune magazine and should have some interesting things to say. Here’s the book’s website blurb: “Why are some people so … Continue reading
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Bad Parents! The New Yorker Scolds the “Helicopter Parent”
From Joan Acocella’s just-published New Yorker article entitled “The Child Trap: The Rise of Overparenting”: “We’ve all been there—that is, in the living room of friends who invited us to dinner without mentioning that this would include a full-evening performance … Continue reading
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The New Yorker’s Take on Evangelicals and Abstinence Education
Found this in the New Yorker and thought that this outsider’s take on evangelicalism and its approach to sex was quite worth reading, if over-heated and wrong-headed in places: “The “pro-family” efforts of social conservatives—the campaigns against gay marriage and … Continue reading
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Thumbspeak: The Phenomenon of “Texting” and What it Means for Communication
Good piece from the New Yorker just published in this week’s edition. Entitled “Thumbspeak” and written by Louis Menand, the short article covers a new book by David Crystal, Txting: The Gr8 Db8. Here are some quick hits from the … Continue reading
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The Week-est Link, April 4, 2008: The Lord’s Prayer, Rhapsody in August, and the Explanatory Power of Credobaptism
1. My wife showed me this video of a tiny little girl singing the Lord’s prayer. It’s precious. Out of the mouth of babes… 2. If you have not seen have August Rush, then you have not heard “August’s Rhapsody”. … Continue reading
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The Strange and Consuming Spectacle That Is "Extreme Home Makeover" and "Oprah’s Big Give"
I confess that until recently I had not watched a minute of the ABC show “Extreme Home Makeover.” Then, randomly, I watched a few moments several weeks ago, my snobbery at mainstream American entertainment (temporarily) overcome. I came away touched … Continue reading
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Training a "Gospel Girl" When Every Daughter Wants to Be a "Gossip Girl"
The New Yorker has a good story on a series of books that you may or may not have heard about. They’re called the “Gossip Girl” books and they deal with a pack of tony New York prep school kids … Continue reading
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