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  • When California City finally filled the artificial lake at the center of the town’s Central Park the name Mendelsohn gave it, the town gathered to celebrate.

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • When California City finally filled the artificial lake at the center of the town’s Central Park the name Mendelsohn gave it, the town gathered to celebrate.

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • Mendelsohn is undoubtedly right, but of course 'what we find beautiful' is indeed subjective, and all too often those who are knowledgeable - and articulate - could do with a salutary measure of humility.

    Archive 2009-04-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • Mendelsohn is right, of course, but a lot of people spend their time venting about what they do not find beautiful or disparaging what others find beautiful.

    Irritalin L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • It seems to me Vance and Clute are frontrunners at this stage, though, just based on name recognition and importance in the field (Mendelsohn is collecting a really extensive body of critical work, though, so who knows ...)

    Hugo Nominations grrm 2010

  • Mendelsohn is undoubtedly right, but of course 'what we find beautiful' is indeed subjective, and all too often those who are knowledgeable - and articulate - could do with a salutary measure of humility.

    Irritalin L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • If Farah Mendelsohn is right that science fiction is more a conversation than a genre, then what happens when the things you've quietly been talking about become public property?

    Archive 2008-06-01 L. Lee Lowe 2008

  • If Farah Mendelsohn is right that science fiction is more a conversation than a genre, then what happens when the things you've quietly been talking about become public property?

    Foreshadow of a novel's doom L. Lee Lowe 2008

  • a musician, such as Mendelsohn, I felt that I could have improvised a music quite peculiar, from the sound they made, which should have indicated all the beauty over which their wings bore them.

    Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Margaret Fuller 1830

  • Mendelsohn might be one of the younger chefs going into battle, but he already has a following, including Michelle Obama who frequents his Washington, DC-based Good Stuff Eatery and We, the Pizza.

    Next Iron Chef's Spike on the New Twist, "Culinary Assassin" Anthony Bourdain 2011

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