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  1. All Town Hall reads the 1st issue of + Didion, Chabon &c tackle the speaking of fabulously ornate sentences.

  2. "In the kingdom of the first person, he has few peers." -- Darryl Pinckney on the magic of James Baldwin in .

  3. Mary Beard, the evening's resident classicist, wears sequins, talks about NYRBs constant re-finding of the classical world

  4. Mark Danner read delightful excerpt from piece on 2008 presidential campaign, "Obama & sweet potato pie." Now, .

  5. Bob Silvers talking about the origins of the NYRB during the New York Times journalist strike of 1963 (like LRB).

  6. If you’re tweeting from the big anniversary bash tonight at , please use the hashtag . See you there!

  7. Self-plagiarism, false memories, literary kleptomania. What happens when our most vivid thoughts are not our own?

  8. Corporations can be measured by their profits. Should teachers be measured by their students’ test scores?

  9. “’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves…” Now in Italian: “Era cerfuoso e i viviscidi tuoppi…” What gets lost?

  10. Oliver Stone’s history “recalls nothing so much as Dick Cheney’s cherry-picking of intelligence,” writes Sean Wilentz

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