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thomcat
thomcat rated it 12 years ago
I think it was a 2012 "book a day" calendar that had this, and the blurb sounded interesting. The book was certainly different, but I came away not liking either of these guys.This is an article, and a conversation about that article between the author and the magazine-hired fact checker. Both are h...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 13 years ago
I've done fact-checking. Working with D'Agata is apparently impossible.
Another fine mess
Another fine mess rated it 14 years ago
Instead of watching the Oscars last night, I picked up this longform essay, an often beautiful, obsessive examination of the plans to bury nuclear waste in Yucca mountain, outside Las Vegas.*Of course, it's not really about the mountain. Aboutness is a problem interrogated in the book, which emerge...
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