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Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. http://www.jody-rosen.com
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Meanwhile if we’re discussing Knopfler infamies “Les Boys” is the ne plus ultra
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I authored a treatise (approx 300 characters) on this subject
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Fixed it
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Here is Mahmoud, addressing the media outside.
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Love everything about the way they play
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Ok but Bill Ackerman is pledging to skip town for Florida. That loss we cant abide.
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Be grateful we didn’t get the Bruce-meets-Clarence magical negro origin story, you know that screenplay has been kicking around H’wood for two decades at least
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I know what I'm saying is obvious to everyone w/half a brain. But in the last week, I've been struck by the number of journos w/massive platforms who've tossed around the words "anarchism" & "anarchist" w/out the slightest awareness & curiosity about what those words mean. It's really dumb!
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Striking how mainstream journalism bends over backwards to apprehend "intellectual currents" on the right but feels zero obligation to crack books on leftist thought. Imagine if the ideas/activism of 21c American anti-fascists had been taken as seriously that of white nationalists or libertarians.
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Yeah that piece preceded the book
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the reaction to American Ground was so revealing -- all the critics of the book wanted him to be maudlin and jingoistic. Instead he just wrote about the realities on the ground -- which of course was a much more meaningful tribute to the real people in the story.
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Langewiesche's writing def embraced Hemingwayesque machismo, in its overall vibe & floridly unflorid turns of phrase, if you know what I mean. (He was a pilot, after all.) But he was a very moral writer, with an unsentimental, unsparing view of politics & power & human follies. In short: amazing guy
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Also great: the travelogue Sahara Unveiled, which is smart & deep & despite its title, not some Orientalist fantasy.
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American Ground was his most celebrated book & his signature pieces were the ones about aviation. But IMO his masterpiece was The Outlaw Sea (2004). Brilliant sentence-to-sentence, stunning reporting. Check out the chapter on the wreck of the ferry Estonia or the one about Shipbreakers in Gujarat.
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Yes indeed
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Incredible job. A+.
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TS