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Amazon spends millions so warehouse employees will chill out Amazon is spending $52 million to upgrade its warehouses—including installing a twentieth century convenience called “air conditioning”—nine months after a scrappy local paper reported that worker conditions at a Pennsylvania… Read more »
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The future of literature: in the hands of the obsessive, maniacal, disturbed Fellow book lovers: word is, the party’s over. Last year, Lars Iyer—Blanchot scholar, philosophy lecturer, and author of the self-evisceratingly hilarious novels Spurious and Dogma—asked: what do we do after the end… 1 / Read more »
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In Texas, you can make history … by changing it According to a New York Times journalist, America’s school children have been reading textbooks catering mostly to Texan sensibilities for decades. Gail Collins in the New York Review of Books… Read more »
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AmazonCrossing’s deep data pools not enough to make a splash If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em? The news that Amazon has bought up the romance and crime fiction publisher Avalon and plans to add its backlist to its imprints… Read more »
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Finger-lickin’ good on Facebook Earlier this week, KFC — a.k.a. Kentucky Fried Chicken — released a free e-book edition of Colonel Harland Sanders’ memoir, exclusively on Facebook. The founder of KFC as well as… Read more »
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Unseen Kafka papers live with an Israeli cat lady, allegedly Philip Levine: ethicist The “thinginess” of books This library has it all, literally There’s something different about Donald Antrim Lorrie… Read more »
