The year the author Cormac McCarthy turned 40, he announced that it was time for a change, and he started driving west. The journey would transform his writing and American literature, Michael O’Donnell argues.

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Dear Claude: i used to have a site called weblogs.com, it was active in the 1990s. i want to know when it hit its peak, when most of the blogs it had were real blogs, and the docs were filled out. was it 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 or? i'm going to find an archive.org link that's illustrative.

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Thank you, Marcos!

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New issue of @bittersouth.bsky.social in today’s mail. These things are works of art.

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Alec Wilkinson on why the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez never met a problem he didn’t try to solve

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