{"id":572,"date":"2007-05-15T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T09:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:15:41","slug":"on-the-current-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"On the current reading list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The June <i>Harper&#8217;s<\/i> arrived yesterday and is, well, fierce. I&#8217;m <i>very<\/i> glad that I subscribed a few months ago, though I feel a bit flayed by Garret Keizer&#8217;s &#8220;Climate, Class and Claptrap&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I sound bitter it is partly because I have been vouchsafed a glimpse of the new carbon-trading world order in the New England villages where I have lived, taught, and buried the dead for close to thirty years, and where any egress from one&#8217;s house now risks collision with an eco-fluent carpetbagger. Apparently, this place that has never had much use to the larger world beyond that of hosting a new prison or a solid-waste dump turns out to be an ideal location for an industrial &#8220;wind farm,&#8221; ideal mostly because the people are too few and too poor to offer much in the way of resistance&#8230; (pg 10)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an absolutely essential article by Sallie Tisdale: &#8220;Chemo World: Surviving the cancer unit&#8221; that tells me more than I would have thought myself comfortable with knowing about chemotherapy and cytotoxic drugs. It&#8217;s right up there with Atul Gawande&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2007\/04\/30\/070430fa_fact_gawande\">&#8220;The Way We Age Now&#8221;<\/a> from last week&#8217;s <i>New Yorker<\/i> as a must-read, especially for those of us who notice that we and others around us are somehow <i>older<\/i> than we used to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June Harper&#8217;s arrived yesterday and is, well, fierce. I&#8217;m very glad that I subscribed a few months ago, though I feel a bit flayed by Garret Keizer&#8217;s &#8220;Climate, Class and Claptrap&#8221;: If I sound bitter it is partly because I have been vouchsafed a glimpse of the new carbon-trading world order in the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}