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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/05/24/100524crat_atlarge_gopnik">Adam Gopnik writes
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/01/25/100125crbo_books_mendelsohn">A brief
history and reflection on the (un)popularity of the memoir</a>. I liked this part in which the author
talks about the effect changes in technology have had on the outpouring of personal narrative:
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So if we\'re feeling assaulted or overwhelmed by a proliferation of personal narratives,
it\'s because we are; but the greatest profusion of these life stories isn\'t to be found
in bookstores. If anything, it\'s hard not to think that a lot of the outrage directed
at writers and publishers lately represents a displacement of a large and genuinely
new anxiety, about our ability to filter or control the plethora of unreliable
narratives coming at us from all directions. In the street
or in the blogosphere, there are no editors, no proofreaders, and no fact-checkers--the
people at whom we can at least point an accusing finger when the old-fashioned kind
of memoir betrays us.
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John McPhee\'s <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/08/100208fa_fact_mcphee">Personal History</a>
piece is poignant and flashes like a fish in sunlight. Reminded me of the best of Annie Dillard.
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My work colleagues and I just spent an intense day and a half effectively locked in a room, talking
about our work together and vision for where we want to be. I was reminded
of <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/25/100125fa_fact_auletta">this piece
by Ken Auletta</a> on the current state of the media vis-a-vis President Obama. A lot of what he has to say
about the impact of the internet, the pace of the news cycle and the breakdown of the 20th century business
model around journalism is part of my daily grind.
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'text' => 'History in smells
David Owen\'s piece <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/25/100125fa_fact_owen">The
Dime Store Floor</a> is a bit of nasal nostalgia. The sense of smell is a vivid memory evoker. A couple
of summers ago I walked into a lumber yard\'s warehouse and had a sensory hit so vivid that for a moment
I was 8 years old in my great-grandfather\'s woodshop/garage next door to the house where I grew up.
Something about the old wood and sawdust and heat. The force of that memory surprised me. Owen\'s piece is like that too.
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I rarely have time to read these days, but when I do I read <a href="http://newyorker.com/">The New Yorker</a>
magazine. It\'s the public radio of magazines: eclectic, in-depth, personal, funny, thoughtful. The average length
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that is smart, engaging and wide-ranging.
Ok, enough plaudits.
I\'m starting this new category to take note of pieces I want to remember later.
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