Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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Notes"Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away." -
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NotesI want a girl who reads.
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Game of Thrones Valentines.
(Which I put on the MoJo Tumblr instead of on my personal Tumblr by mistake. Sorry. Here’s my review of “A Dance With Dragons,” the latest book in the series, to make it up to you. —Nick Baumann)
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One of the all-time greats. If you haven’t read it, do.
…to note the fiftieth birthday of the closest thing that American literature has to an “Alice in Wonderland” of its own, Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth”—with illustrations by Jules Feiffer—is to mark an anniversary that matters.
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My favorite book as a child, and among my favorite books of all time.
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This is pretty horrifying.
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"Rumors that the “Harry Potter” actress was bullied and subjected to dumb teasing — students yelling out ‘Three points for Gryffindor!’ in her classes, for example — began circulating."
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This, awesomely, is a real bedtime book: “Go the F*** to Sleep.”
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Oh dear. via @lizzieohreally
