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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

flatfour, April 13, 2007

This was written in 2004 before the 'hockey stick' was found to be virtually a fraud. Using old data he misses out on a number of new facts. He also suffers from assuming correlation is causation. I was very disappointed in this book but he knows how to write which is about the only good thing I can say about it.
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