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Amazon, Robots, and Other News

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  • Publishing legend André Schiffrin has died, at seventy-eight.
  • Amazon and drones. In the immortal words of Pillow Talk, “some jokes are too obvious to be funny.”
  • Stephen Colbert disagrees.
  • Speaking of! Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson: “To the extent that Tyson has a predominant tone in Undisputed Truth it’s that of a Vegas stand-up comic, alternately self-loathing and self-aggrandizing, sometimes funny, sometimes merely crude.”
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