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Good Choice

May 1, 2007

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Daniel Larison

Personally, though, if I were running for president I’d site [sic] something obscure like Andrei Bely’s objectively pro-terrorist modernist classic Petersburg. ~Matt Yglesias 

This is an interesting choice, a very intriguing…hm, yes, quite a unique selection.

Okay, so, I can’t really replicate the odd style of Bely, but I have to commend Yglesias on the selection.  As weird, Hesse-like, pre-revolutionary Russian novels go, it’s right up there.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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