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Giant, Texas-sized book auction It’s finally happening. We warned you. Out of Archer City, Texas, comes Larry McMurtry’s giant Last Book Sale. According to the Austin Chronicle: Larry McMurtry is putting two-thirds of the inventory… Read more »
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‘Leader of the 99%’ stars in video game You might have missed this: Occupy is now video-game fodder. Software developer Treyarch has announced that the villain of its forthcoming game, Black Ops 2, is Raul Menendez, the imagined… Read more »
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PODCAST: Amazon, from A to Z Last week, Melville House co-founder Dennis Johnson participated in “The Great Amazon Debate,” a podcast hosted by The Naked Book. Also included in the conversation is publishing consultant Sheila Bounford;… Read more »
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A new digital reading project inspired by “The Wire” The internet is bulging with apps and platforms hoping to offer new ways of reading online, but every so often one comes along that seems genuinely interesting. The former publisher… Read more »
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Could Peter Jackson turn The Hobbit into a trilogy? Peter Jackson—Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy—recently completed filming his follow-up project, the film adaptation of The Hobbit. His plan is to split the book into… Read more »
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Founding editor and managing editor fired from the Oxford American The sublime BS of life Brought to you by our sponsor, David Foster Wallace Deconstructing William Gibbons Jonathan Franzen is… Read more »
