I hope we can all keep in mind what Twitter is for.

"SEVENTEEN AND OH, by Marshall Fisher, is a wonderful book … an excellent history lesson of the 1972 Miami Dolphins and their undefeated season.” —Michael Lombardi, VSIN vsin.com/nfl/lombardi-m…

Mr. Margolin “radiated sleaziness and personified sly treachery with a winning charm,” author George V. Higgins wrote in the Wall Street Journal. George had a colorful way of giving credit where it's due. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

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Massachusetts has enacted Amendment S.3162, protecting people from vehicles; a "Vulnerable user" of the Commonwealth's roadways includes "a pedestrian; a person operating a bicycle, handcycle, tricycle, skateboard, roller skates, inline skates,… masto.ai/@A_LaFarge/109…

Robert Gottlieb on being an editor (interview with Terry Gross): "The editor represents many things, and different things to every writer. It's a financial relationship. It's an approval relationship. It's a technical relationship."… masto.ai/@A_LaFarge/109…

Ahem.

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I especially like "don't throw self" and (underlined) "not too enthusiastic" ...

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Hey Boston, did you know that food retail conglomerate Albertsons plays in our backyard? Yes, they own Shaw's and Star Markets. Even good old Stawp & Shawp (remember the A&P in Edgartown?) is owned by Belgian giant Ahold Delhaize. Robert Reich explains. masto.ai/@A_LaFarge/110…

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masto.ai/@A_LaFarge/110…: If the TBR issue devoted works in translation excites hope for meaningful or extended comment on the work of translators, prepare to be disappointed. And prepare to gasp in horror at the rendering of a passage of Samuel Butler's translation of the Iliad.