Charles Donelan

@JamesSurowiecki Santa Barbara

What's the best place to live in America, taking into account culture, easy access to the outdoors, fun things to do, food, weather, interesting and smart people, etc.?

@bdjansenphd amazon.com/Lonely-Passion…

@BriceCollin thisamericanlife.org/203/recordings…

@mervatim wwnorton.com/books/97803939…

@timothyraubry Don’t forget about Robert Stone and Milan Kundera

@PhDhurtBrain Now try Strange Fruit m.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007…

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@devingarofalo Saki, The Lumber Room

Everyone realizes the GOP *wants* you to leave Twitter, right? It’s one of our most effective messaging platforms.

@intersectionist today.duke.edu/2004/09/ishi_0…

@dickiebush en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Padre…

I want to spend a week off the grid the first week of December to reflect on the year. Preferably somewhere in the mountains, warm enough to hike during the day (50+) but chilly at night. Where’s the best place in the US to go?

Everyone needs a Content Friend (someone you send 5-100 links to per day stream of consciousness style)

@MEASeybold m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQIzDK…

@RowanHLB amazon.com/Ross-Macdonald…

Okay, book-friends—I have a question. What are your favourite well-written crime novels? i.e. A whydunnit or a whodunnit with the level of sentence work and characterization you'd demand from a "literary" novel?

@KleinUla press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

@alyssaharad amazon.com/Grief-Lessons-…

Best books about grief and grieving? Not self-help/pop psych stuff. Classics. Poets. Essays. Would especially love anything that lets history and politics in or considers grief over the loss of ideals/ideas as well as individuals.

@NushPowell vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016…

Eighteenth-century nerd claxon: student wants to work on widows. Great texts you'd recommend, either primary or critical? (Student prefers working on widows in fiction, but some wiggle room.)

@scriblerian How about The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne?

@cmonstah The wind that comes down through the passes at 100 miles an hour and whines through the Eucalypts windbreaks and works on the nerves. October is the bad month for the wind, the month when breathing is difficult and the hills blaze up spontaneously.

@dan_sinykin Chaotic good/true neutral