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"The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters…."

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"To be short, then, a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. There you have him."

Occupy Writers, Salinger the Cruise Director, and More

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
10.18.11

Writers in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement have launched a website; the Appalachian Prison Book Project has lost its funding; Columbia professor James Shapiro has some choice items to say about Anonymous, the new Roland Emmerich film; and other news.

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