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Poking a Sharp Stick at the Farm

September 24, 2009

As green-clad protesters filled the streets of New York City in protest of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech before the United Nations, a different set of Greens is planning to gather in Madison, Wisconsin this evening. They are farmers, and their grievance, they say, is that they have been misrepresented in Michael Pollan’s books. Pollan’s book on […]

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Shelved with: Reading the Table|| Food Systems
Tagged With: Context, Criticism, Food, Food politics, Michael Pollan, Laura Daniels, University of Wisconsin, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Wisconsin, Tom Still, Wisconsin Public Radio, Agriculture, Bill Bruins, Bill Marler
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Beowulf Live: Reclaiming the Classics on WPR

November 18, 2007

We got to listen to Grendel gorging flesh and griding bone in the mini-van on the way home from church today…

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: Tolstoy, Wisconsin Public Radio, Austen, Beowulf, Classics, Dick Ringler, Jane Austen, Jim Flemming, Michael Dirda
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