Your blogger in PR last week, with the book she’s been reading for five effing months because she spends too much time on the internet and reads too many things for law school, leaving Tony Judt 2/3rds incomplete. This makes her sad, and potential partners will probably reject her for it. I have so been here. Yes, I judge people by their literary choices. Do you list The Da Vinci Code as one of your favorite books on Facebook? Talk about how great Ayn Rand is? Read John Grisham novels somewhere other than on an airplane... lire la suite
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Unfortunately the book is not yet available in the US (and the American version of Amazon doesn't seem to know about it yet), but readers in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand can already pick it up. I look forward to Stephen's introduction to the US edition, in which he quotes "Pushkin, Mark Liberman, and [his] nonagenarian mother-in-law"! A formidable lineup indeed. Posted by Benjamin Zimmer at December 17, 2007 10:11 PM
09 - Roman Pushkin vs The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Okay, this article that Jill linked to is so worth blogging. It’s this weird, semi-guilty article about those oh-so-picky-bitches who just want men they partner with to clear certain basic standards in conversation ability. Okay, well, dumping someone just because he’s never heard of Pushkin is a little extreme, at least if he [...]
Russia approves $177M to renovate Pushkin museum. (CBC)
Isaac Turienzo est l'un des musiciens espagnols de Jazz les plus importants de la décennie quatre-vingt-dix. Il a participé dans plusieurs festivals; il s'est produit au Festival International de Jazz d'Athènes, à l'Auditoire du Musée Pushkin de Moscou, au Grand Auditoire du Centre Culturel de Belèm à Lisbonne, à l'Auditoire du Palais des Communautés européennes (Luxembourg), à l'Auditoire San Felipe Neri et au Centre d'Études de José Marti (La Havane, Cuba), etc.
A Tass report, courtesy of David Johnson#39;s Russia list:MOSCOW, June 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian tsar Peter the Great, poet Alexander Pushkin, and Sov... . . .
Ben Zycher of the Manhattan Institute sends this:nbsp; Stalin decided to honor the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin by erecting a monument to Push... . . .
his own LiveJournal blog referencing the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, “The farther away the Commodore’s footsteps, the louder they sound.”
4. Retarded-brilliant punny headlines i.e. "Paper Pushkin" and, atop a transcript of the torture-y interrogation of a sixteen-year-old accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, the title "Teen Beat." **