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The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg

drupagliassotti @ January 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I just finished The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg. I love social histories — they help me, as a writer, get my head into different cultures and times. This book is a history of cleanliness in the Western world, from the Greeks and Romans to 2007.  It describes the cultural fluctuations […]

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Back From India

drupagliassotti @ January 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Well, I’m back from my three weeks in India — what a great trip! Oh, keeping track of 14 college students wasn’t all fun and games, to be sure (wouldn’t you think that by this age they’d have learned to be punctual?), but overall we all had a good time and learned a lot. […]

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