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New Yorker editor praises Adam Gopnik, thinks all critics “bullshit” “I sometimes wonder if Adam Gopnik was put on this earth to annoy,” James Walcott once wrote in the New Republic. “If so, mission accomplished.” Renata Adler, no friend of Walcott’s,… Read more »
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The state of the million-dollar book deal What does it take to land a million dollar book deal lately? Well, so far in 2012 there’s been the case of the celebrity memoir (Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mother), the… Read more »
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Eating your way through the classics with Fictitious Dishes This week Melville House celebrates the latest release in our series of Pepe Carvalho mysteries from Spanish author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In Off Side, the pressure is on Carvalho to find… Read more »
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Slideshow: TV’s top bookstores & libraries The nominations for the 2012 Emmy Awards were announced on Thursday morning, with literary adaptations such as Game of Thrones, Game Change, and Sherlock in the mix for the top… Read more »
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Prying guns from their cold, dead, well-read hands Meredith Schwartz reports in Library Journal about one Michigan library’s struggle to keep guns from between their stacks. The Michigan Court of Appeals heard oral arguments July 11th in the… Read more »
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Churchill’s choice words Giving poetry new life in China Rory O’Connor on social media’s infiltration A six-year-old’s take on book covers Alice in Wonderland underwater photographs Classic, obscure children’s books… Read more »
