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Some time ago I stumbled across SeatGuru.com, and it has made me a happier traveler. It's a site that allows you to investigate the internal properties of various airplanes and locate more favorable seats. For example, with regard to the Boeing 767-200, one is told that seats 16K and 16L "have some extra legroom due to a cutout in the bulkhead," and that "many flyers enjoy the quiet and private feel of this mini-cabin," although "it can get very cold" and there is some danger of a baby...

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I'm pleased and amazed that El ruido eterno, as The Rest Is Noise is known in Spain, is currently listed as the No. 1 non-fiction bestseller (castellano) by La Vanguardia. I will make a brief trip to Spain next week, appearing at the Spanish National Library in Madrid at 7 PM on Nov. 2; the International Institute in Madrid at 7 PM on Nov. 3; and Librería La Central in Barcelona at 1 PM on Nov. 4. I'm tremendously grateful to my Spanish publisher, Seix Barral, and also to the U.S. Embassy...

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Audio-Samples zum Buch The Rest Is Noise: Das 20. Jahrhundert hören finden Sie hier.

Para los ejemplos de audio relacionados con el libro El ruido eterno, vaya aquí.

Per esempi musicali dal libro Il resto è rumore vai qui.

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Today I'm launching a new blog on the New Yorker website. It's called Unquiet Thoughts, after the John Dowland part-song, and it will offer many of the features that readers have come to expect from this site: the hilarity, the profundity, the delicious recipes. Given the close relationship between my New Yorker writing and my adventures in blogging, it makes more sense to bring all of my activity under the magazine's exacting aegis. The present site will remain intact, with a focus on my...

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Tragic news from Brooklyn: Suzanne Fiol, the founder of the experimental music venue ISSUE Project Room, has died of cancer at the age of forty-nine. She will be desperately missed.

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a firework-enhanced encore of the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth, at the Hollywood Bowl.

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Audio-Samples zum Buch The Rest Is Noise: Das 20. Jahrhundert hören finden Sie hier.

Para los ejemplos de audio relacionados con el libro El ruido eterno, vaya aquí.

Clicca qui ad ascoltare ai campioni con riferimento al libro Il resto e rumore.

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Fiasco. The New Yorker, Oct. 5, 2009.

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Bob Shingleton of On an Overgrown Path alerts me to the fact that a club called The Rest Is Noise is opening this Thursday on Brixton Road in London. According to the Guardian, it's the latest venture from "the gang behind trendy boozers The Lock Tavern and the Amersham Arms," and it will be purveying an "old-school garage selection," featuring such DJs as DJ Caspa, Joy Orbison, Adventures In The Beetroot Field, Casper C, and Crispin Dior. Surely they need a gay night called The Rest Is...

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Kari Kriikku is hardly a household name, but he should be. He is a clarinetist of astonishing agility and expressive imagination. He's beginning to develop a higher American profile, thanks to the support of Finnish compatriots such as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Osmo Vänskä: he made a memorable appearance at Mostly Mozart two summers ago, playing the Mozart concerto, and in February he'll unfurl Magnus Lindberg's rapturously lyrical Clarinet Concerto with Alan Gilbert and the New York...

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