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‘I find the objection to “press 1 for English” incredibly curious.’
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The place’s purpose is “to provide a comfortable and inspiring shared studio where writers can concentrate on their personal and professional work and enjoy as much or as little community as they want.”
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“If just anyone starts punting books on to the street without the careful control of intelligent, creative people, then goodness knows what kind of situation we might have. One of unfettered invention and originality…, perhaps?”
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“In St. Louis, [Marijean Jaggers'] commute was 45 minutes in the morning and 1 1/2 hours in the afternoon. Here [in Cville], it’s just a walk down the stairs to the basement.”
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“He was simply ground down by the sequence of catastrophes,” his friend Norman Rush, the novelist, said Monday. — The NYT finally gets around to an obit.
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Regarding the link above, and thanks for that, I cannot tell you how much our family’s life has improved since our move to Charlottesville. The quality of the time we have to spend together, the amount we have for work and (gasp) for fun has grown extensively — not to mention what we’ve saved financially in gas, wear and tear on cars, childcare, etc. It’s the best move we’ve ever made.