Posted 3 months ago in the late afternoon by oso
This will have to be an English-only post until I get the video of Nicholas up on dotSUB and add Spanish subtitles. I’m currently at the Calabash International Literary Festival with Georgia, Nicholas, Annie, Kei, Peter, Jonathan, JJ, and company.
Here’s a video interview I recorded with Nicholas Laughlin, editor of the Caribbean Review of Books, a couple nights ago just before the festival began.
Milan - It's true, my favorite Pepperidge Farm cookies were always the Milanos, the mint ones. Paul Graham wrote an interesting essay in May about those social pressures that cities like to whisper into our ears. Manhattan tells us to make more money, he writes, and Cambridge tells us to read more books. ... - #
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