Tag: Skylark
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The difference between hipster name-checking and geek name-checking
Geeks and hipsters are similar in that both groups are defined by the ways that their members use popular culture to define their personal identities. But the two are very different in terms of their group dynamics. When I was doing the Dangerous Voices reading last weekend, one of the questions asked to the authors…
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Dezso Kosztolányi’s Skylark
Just finished a book that I’ll never be able to recommend to anyone, because I don’t have the first idea how the author’s name is pronounced. However, Dezso Kosztolányi’s Skylark was a really tight, highly thought-out sort of book. I was a bit wary of it at first, because it had one of those description that feel…