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2016 Conference Schedule
CODA 2016: Conference on Data Analysis. Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2nd-4th FORCE2016: Building Bridges, Connecting Knowledge. Portland, Oregon, April 17th-19th
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Make Santa Fe
Very happy to be serving on the board of Make Santa Fe with an exceptional group of people and creators.
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CoDa 2016: Mars, Bluegrass, and Guinness
My summary of the incredibly informative and productive Conference on Data Analysis (CoDa) 2016 over at databrarians.org.
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Black Deutschland
In his debut novel, High Cotton, Pinckney created a narrator who resists the reductive racial identity thrust upon him by society and embarks on a journey to define his individualism against and within...
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LANL Foundational Educational Outreach Grant
Very happy to have received a LANL Foundation Educational Outreach Grant to support our efforts in building and sustaining Make Santa Fe.
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The Grand Tour: The Life and Music of George Jones
Considered one of the greatest country songs of all time, “He Stopped Loving Her Today” would become George Jones’s (1931–2013) signature song and come to encapsulate his persona: a deeply tragic...
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Book of Numbers
Language is paramount in Cohen’s work. His last novel, Witz, was a linguistically dexterous work spanning more than 800 pages. Two-page sentences spiked with shards of scattered verses invited the...
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Zero K
In this new work, DeLillo (Underworld; Point Omega) ruminates on a concept from his breakout 1985 novel, White Noise: “You have said goodbye to everyone but yourself. How does a person say goodbye to...
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The Sport of Kings
Underscoring the importance of place in fiction, Eudora Welty once wrote, “One place understood helps us understand all places better.” For Morgan (All the Living), Kentucky is the place; she’s a...
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Angel of History
How does the mind grapple with transition, change, loneliness, and deterioration? Alameddine’s (An Unnecessary Woman; I, the Divine) body of work is an extended meditation on this central question....
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Nutshell
In the 17th century, René Descartes contended that merely doubting one’s own existence simultaneously proved that one existed: Cogito, ergo sum. In his newest and most provocative work to date, McEwan...
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