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Comedies Are Too Depressing, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
January 10, 2014
On the Shelf
Chuchin the Clown, via Wikimedia Commons
Are today’s most prestigious “comedies”
too depressing
?
The Los Angeles Public Library is soon
to offer high school diplomas
. (You can’t just check them out for a few weeks; you have to work for them.)
More on the curious connection between prose and booze: “Writers in this office used to
drink
,”
said an unnamed
New Yorker
fixture
.
For the discriminating digital reader on a budget,
a treasure trove of public domain e-books
.
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