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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:48:02 -0700

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I interviewed Jim Knipfel for Men's Journal.

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:52:51 -0800

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One from the archives. Schwester came to dinner last night, and it reminded me of this visit, back in the RI days.

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:51:27 -0800

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a friend of 10 years.

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:42:18 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:09:22 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:04:47 -0700

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kc + cactus

nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:26:33 -0700

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robert + karoline

nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:26:30 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:31:06 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:18:21 -0700

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the hills have eyes, and the shrubs have arms.

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:08:57 -0700

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"bigmouth la dee doe, da da..."

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:58:00 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:09:44 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:40:04 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:47:20 -0700

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read this book.

nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:29:09 -0700

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Closing Time, Joe Queenan's new memoir of growing up poor in Philadelphia, is out.

Such good writing. Sharp, funny, heartbreaking, breathtaking writing. Only Queenan will tell you about getting "sucker-punched by the One True Church"; the fedora-wearing, lifesaving uncle who called him and his sisters "pretty good coconuts" and drove them on day-long jaunts for pizza—thinly veiled escapes from their father and their housing project; about teaching himself "the causes of the French and Indian war, the latitude and longitude of Timbuktu, the composition of the Spartan phalanx, the philosophical underpinnings of the bicameral legislative system.... who Sennacherib was, what he was famous for, and how the reign of Ashurbanipal fit into the grand scheme of things, dead certain that this information might one day come in handy."

I'm a bit biased (see p.81: "Everyone who is saved is saved because someone tossed him or her a lifeline..."), but NPR's Scott Simon isn't, and neither is USA Today.

And neither is the New York Times.

My favorite line in the book: "To the affluent, books are ornaments. To the poor, books are siege weapons."

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:31:41 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:56 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:29:01 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (...kranich) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:06:03 -0700

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