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Posts tagged ‘conference’

Apr 28

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Brain Food

Recently I’ve been mildly obsessed with Elif Batuman’s The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them (2011). It’s a collection of essays about Russian literature and her experiences as a PhD student at Stanford. In the first chapter, ‘Babel in California,’ Batuman describes a conference at Stanford, dedicated to the analysis of the work of Isaak Babel. Like so many academic conferences, it is simultaneously enlightening and farcical.

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Jun 25

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Palate Cleanser

I’m away this week, so I leave you with:

This picture:


This small opinion piece on cupcakes which I wrote for Food24.

This recipe for cinnamon buns by Dan Lepard.

And this video:

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