New Republic on January 20, 2010: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/bring-back-dwight. The interview with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy that I quote appeared in the Guardian of London on April 24, 2010: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/24/lcd-soundsystem-this-is-happening. Chesterton’s wonderful essay “In Defence of Penny Dreadfuls” (1901) may be found in dozens of places on the Internet. Auden’s comment on the “high holidays of the spirit” comes from his essay called simply “Reading,” in The Dyer’s Hand (New York: Random House, 1962). Walter Kirn’s Lost in the Meritocracy: The
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