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Fact-Checking a Chinese Hero: Evan Osnos on the diary of Lei Feng, “the yeti of Chinese Communist history”: http://nyr.kr/YNXxFE
Above: A portrait of Lei Feng. Photograph by Evan Osnos.
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Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part V
“I decided that 340 euros was too much to pay for a taxidermied bird…”
Henri Cole’s Paris diary, part V: http://nyr.kr/YpraMd
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Pondering the flowers this week—with their complex shadings of blue—in all the flower shops of Paris, I have been reminded of how short life is but also of how tough and durable we are as humans…
Henri Cole’s Paris Diary, Part III: http://nyr.kr/SaHHnp -
"I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people."
— Fiction editor Deborah Treisman talks with Alice Munro about her writing life, and her new short story collection, “Dear Life”
