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  • Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s hilarious, wandering travelogue is filled with brilliant philosophical observations even as its author loses most of his toenails. [1 of 3]
 

today’s Very Short List:
culture 8 May 2012

by Andrew Leland, co-editor of The Believer. He also helps out with the True/False Film Festival.
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  • The wisest and most charming character in the book—aside from Tom Bissell (see his very funny critique in GQ)—is the artist David Levine. [2 of 3]
 
  • Walking across Spain, GL-K quotes a few apt lines from Ashbery’s “Soonest Mended.” The poem, and this book, are both worth traversing in full. [3 of 3]
 
  • Images (in order): Sense of Direction cover; Hopeful, by David Levine via François Ghebaly Gallery; photo by Gideon Lewis-Kraus.
 
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