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                                             April 29, 2012

  Time for one of my little trips down
  Unmemory Lane that I suspect is more
  interesting to me than anyone else...

  I'm gradually making a collection of
  cases of memory-slips; examples of
  things I could've sworn were so that
  clearly are not.


Where did I first hear of George Scialabba?
                                                      SCIALABBA
At the last Anarchist Bookfair, I picked up a
copy of his book "What Are Intellectuals Good
For?", because I'd already heard something
about it.  In fact, I thought it was a little
mainstream for the Anarchist Bookfair
scene... I was pretty sure I'd read a review
of it in "The New York Review of Books".

But the NYRB on-line database does not agree with my
memory, and I couldn't tell where I learned of it.


  Scoping around a little,
  I see a few possibilities:
                                              This is one of the few occasions
  His name came up when I was doing web       when my habit of saving copies of
  searches on people like Russell Jacoby,     things I read on-line has been of
  and I ended up reading things like a        some small use.
  Scott McClemee piece about Scialabba:

      http://www.mclemee.com/id206.html  http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee165

                                                                 DEATH_SCENES
  As well as some related
  articles up on "Crooked
  Timber"...

  http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/03/george-scialabba-and-the-culture-wars-or-critique-of-judgment/

                                           "Crooked Timber" has frequently
                                           had multiple Scialabba links in
                                           every side-bar.


  Alternately: it could be in one of periods of
  pondering the lamentable if not lamented
  Christopher Hitchens, that I found Scialabba's
  "reassessment" published by "n+1":

     http://www.nplusonemag.com/farewell-hitch

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