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Monthly Archives: August 2013

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Reading: 25-31 August 2013 ZiR

August 28, 2013 by fritztucker

Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 28 August 2013 I just read Shah of Shahs, by Richard Kapuscinski. It was the perfect book for getting back into the academic mood in the late summer without actually being an academic. Written from the first person perspective of an Iranian revolutionary journalist by a Polish man who was not actually present during the Iranian Revolution, Kapuscinski nevertheless gets to the heart […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Iran, revolution, Richard Kapuscinski

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Cultural meltdown: 18-24 August 2013 (ZiR)

August 20, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 18 August 2013 I’ve recently heard my friends speak about seemingly “new” neighborhoods. They talk about SoHa and SoBro—which really mean South Harlem and South Bronx. . .the revitalized self in them. I guess they call them that way to avoid negative stereotypes. How would people judge them if they were to speak of the slummy Bronx, or untamed Harlem? I bet they’d […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: art, death, Henry James, poetry, Wallace Stevens, Whitney Museum

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Translating Baudelaire

August 11, 2013 by William Eaton

My hobby this summer has turned out to be translating lines from Baudelaire.

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Baudelaire, French, poetry, translation

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Reading: 4-10 August 2013

August 5, 2013 by William Eaton

Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 4 August 2013 For a bit of summer reading, I just today finished Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog) (1899), which he originally intended as a serious travel guide but became an exercise in hilarity. We all hear that inner voice when we read, which is relatively consistent. For some reason, I heard the voice […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Franz Kafka, Henrietta Lacks

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