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The Economist has a new travel blog, the new Fuchsia Dunlop book is only "good," the first issue of Reason magazine under new editor Matt Welch is out (so far I like it; it's less cultural, less left-wing and more current affairsy than before), finally I am into Wilco, Vishnu's Crowded Temple is an interesting account of the blend between Indian politics and religion, Arthur Brooks's Gross National Happiness argues that the traditional conservative recipe makes people happy, Ramon Llull is a much underrated medieval thinker, here's a blog on giving away your rebate, and here's Ryan Holiday on how to master what you read; his technique is the opposite of mine which is simply to read and move on. And here is why congestion pricing died in New York.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on April 15, 2008 at 07:18 AM in Books | Permalink
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Wilco now rubs me the wrong way. It comes off as pretentious. But I used to be a huge fan.
Posted by: thehova at Apr 15, 2008 8:00:20 AM
Tyler, you seem to have been in too much of a hurry when you put this post together. Or maybe you're saying your ethnic dining guide is the key to happiness. Maybe it is.
Posted by: Ted Craig at Apr 15, 2008 8:26:26 AM
wilco: another band that i don't like, or even quite want to like...I think I just want to want to like them.
Posted by: shawn at Apr 15, 2008 8:32:45 AM
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Posted by: goodnessofFit at Apr 15, 2008 8:51:13 AM
Goodnessoffit- Any special reason you're posting part of an old SNL skit here?
Posted by: wugong at Apr 15, 2008 8:55:30 AM
Fuchsia Dunlop's memoir is much better than good. It might even put some bones on Tyler Cowen's (I thought) bizarre suggestion in "Discover your inner economist" that you go into a restaurant and say "I know Chengdu" (I would assume this would lead to the opportunity to reminisce about Chengdu, which would probably not be very fruitful). Anyway, Dunlop's book covers quite a bit of recent Chinese history from a unique perspective, but her experience runs pretty true to my own. The one big obvious thing that she misses in thinking about how her attitudes towards food have changed is that she has herself changed (particularly, gotten older). But it's a great idiosyncratic picture of a society where, as Lu Xun and others have noted (see Diary of a Madman), eating is central to both identity and social relations.
Posted by: Kevin Miller at Apr 15, 2008 9:14:16 AM
Nitpick: it's spelled Ramon Llull.
Posted by: Bartman at Apr 15, 2008 9:37:54 AM
I hope your description of Reason is correct; I liked it better under Postrel than Gillespie.
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Posted by: Person at Apr 15, 2008 9:49:10 AM
Goodnessoffit- Any special reason you're posting part of an old SNL skit here?
Of course there is.
Posted by: goodnessOfFit at Apr 15, 2008 1:40:18 PM
Congratulations on finally getting into Wilco. They are a great band.
Posted by: wph at Apr 15, 2008 2:45:02 PM
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2.Being There
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Posted by: wagonrunner at Apr 15, 2008 7:58:20 PM
Tyler, why are you so afraid of semicolons?
I challenge you to increase your semicolon usage 100%.
Posted by: Paul N at Apr 15, 2008 10:03:38 PM
Tyler, first listen to, and appreciate, Uncle Tupelo. And Wagonrunner, Summerteeth is
number 3, better than A Ghost is Born and Sky Blue Sky...via Chicago, man.
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