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Head of Reed Elsevier hits back at academic uprising Even as the uprising against scholarly publisher Elsevier continues to spread — see this report from the Sydney Morning Herald about Australian academics joining in, and this CBC report about the… 2 / Read more »
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VIDEO: The funniest video on the internet … … or is it? Google has developed an algorithm that judges comments left on YouTube videos, and through it they claim to have found the funniest video on the internet.… Read more »
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Why are certain books banned for prisoners? In honor of Black History Month, Leonard Pitts tells a story to give readers pause in a column for the Orlando Sentinel. According to Pitts, Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative,… Read more »
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Leigh Stein: “My greatest ambition was to ‘Be Anne Frank.’” Anne Frank is alive and well. That’s the premise in Shalom Auslander’s new novel Hope: A Tragedy, where Frank is old, uncouth, and typing away in the attic of a farmhouse. Frank… Read more »
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“The Ukraine as a Novel with Strong Plot and Weak Characters”: Andrey Kurkov on tour Today marks the release of Andrey Kurkov’s third novel with Melville House, The Case of the General’s Thumb, and we’re happy to say that we’ll be hosting Andrey for a… Read more »
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MSNBC fires Pat Buchanan over book On the “wonderful, terrible” habit of buying too many books Google Translate: Gallimard, she wants to buy Flammarion The history of naming publishing companies… Read more »
