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...Picking" means roaming the aisles of the Seattle distribution center, filling customer orders from shelves packed with titles arranged according to a bewildering strategy called "random stow" that leaves Toni Morrison: A Womanist Discourse abutting Garfield's Extreme Student Planner. This facility is the smallest of Amazon's nine worldwide distribution centers. But today the place is humming with hundreds of pickers pushing around carts piled high with books and other products destined to land under thousands of Christmas trees...
...title of Durang's latest work, a perversion (in both senses of the word) of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, seems almost chosen at random from the list of novels that it references. The basic plot of Dostoevsky's famous meditation on being and nothingness (long before Sartre took the patent out on those themes) serves as the starting point of the Durang/Innaurato collaboration: four brothers, tempestuous love, life, death, etc, etc. But it doesn't take long to leave Dostoevsky in the dust as Durang and Innaurato jump full force into the whole of literature since the Book...
...dispatched our reporters to find out about 15 members of the senior class whom they'd never met. The best way to find these people, we said, was to look around. They'd be random, but then again...
...Random compers, taking news very seriously...
...Fresh off that Crazy stage, Jenn storms FM with love and enthusiasm gushing in every direction. Unable to contain herself, she often develops strong feelings about her articles, be they about Harvard's Hottest or one of fifteen random seniors. She's still looking for people to initiate, but we have faith she'll find them someday. And when she does, we're sure you'll know about...