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Jeremy Axelrod is an editor of Parnassus. His writing has appeared in The Yale Review, Commentary, The New York Sun, Barnes & Noble Review, The New Atlantis, Columbia Journalism Review, and elsewhere.

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Boredom, Dig It

Boredom is less a subject than a family of long-faced misfits—from tedium to acedia to melancholy—that have thrived at every epoch of human history

Jeremy Axelrod | Published Jun 20, 2011

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