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Saturday, April 11, 2026

David Remnick in ‘The New Yorker’. On Trump and his policies.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/donald-trumps-strategic-failure-and-moral-calamity-in-iran

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Friday, April 10, 2026

 


The Mississippi Miracle in Reading

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/podcasts/the-daily/mississippi-schools-test-scores.html?context=audio&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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 On second avenue, East Village, yesterday.





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Wednesday, April 8, 2026


Interview with Josh Shapiro, today.

https://youtu.be/rvn4BQfJ2w0?si=p8MqhZ_39Pvt7_p_

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

 

A film: James Nachtwey: War Photographer (2001)

https://youtu.be/FUiohIC1dYU?si=GshXL0rUNFGrzke2

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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Saw this in the checkout line at the grocery store this morning. 



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I’ve been a schoolteacher. Right after college in 1969, like a lot of guys, I taught school as an alternative to serving in Vietnam. I was married with a week-old daughter on graduation day. I taught grade school English in Cleveland, Ohio for six years. After that, I ran, eventually owned, a longstanding bookstore in downtown Cleveland. It felt something like Three Lives in the West Village. I went on to found an alternative weekly paper like the Voice, also in Cleveland. It lasted 12 years. Twenty-one years ago I moved here, armed with an idea and a prototype for a national book magazine. Like a Rolling Stone for books. I never raised the huge amount of money I needed. I then worked for a media company, editing a couple of neighborhood weeklies, more than once using my editor’s space to talk about city kids and reading. Between the editorial jobs, I taught English for a year here in Manhattan at a Catholic boys’ high school with mostly minority kids. I was terrible at discipline. But sometimes when we found a book or a story we liked, it all came together. gunlockeb@yahoo.com
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