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• SLIDESHOW: Are dachshunds the most artful of dogs?

  Nabokov admired one. Chekhov cuddled with one. E.B. White wrote poetry to them. Gary Shteyngart tweets about one. (Also: Warhol had two. Picasso drew one.) At The New York Daily News’s Page Views… 7 / Read more »

• SLIDESHOW: Best literary curios on Tumblr

  Earlier this month Nick Moran at The Millions posted a great guide to the best literary Tumblrs. We’ve been enjoying them ever since and highly recommend it as high-minded time-killer.… Read more »

• SLIDESHOW: Should a true friend be cruel? Lars Iyer praises the frenemy

  Should your best friends also be cruel? At The Guardian, Lars Iyer (Spurious, Dogma) praises the frenemy in literature and in life: “‘In your friend you should possess your best enemy’, Nietzsche… Read more »

• “I’ve been fortunate that all the bad reviews I’ve had have been written by idiots.” – Geoff Dyer on bad reviews

  Geoff Dyer, a nominee for the first ever “Hatchet Job of the Year” prize for his negative review of Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Adam Mars-Jones won the… Read more »

• SLIDESHOW: Churches for book lovers, skateboarders, and supercomputers.

  If you’re an atheist bibliophile with a love for church architecture, things don’t get much more appealing than the gorgeous Selexyz bookstore in The Netherlands, formerly a Dominican church. Last week Mental Floss posted photographs of churches converted to secular… Read more »

• SLIDESHOW: Love dogs? Love books? New book features illustrations of dogs in books

  In Homer’s Odyssey, when Odysseus returns home at last to Ithaca, his faithful dog Argos struggles to greet him. There the dog Argos lay in the dung, all covered with… Read more »

• SURVEY: What you think about what JFranz thinks about ebooks

  You’ve all read what Jonathan Franzen thinks about ebooks. But we’re wondering what you think about what Jonathan Franzen thinks about ebooks, or whether you think it matters at all.… 2 / Read more »

• Day in Review

  Are Sony’s days in eBooks numbered? Amazon tells South Carolina customers they have to pay taxes on 2011 purchases 2011 PROSE Award Winners announced Donnelly’s ‘Cloud Corporation’ wins six-figure prize… 1 / Read more »

• Former intern sues Harper’s Bazaar seeking unpaid wages

  Xuedan Wang, represented by the firm Outten & Golden, has filed a suit against The Hearst Corporation claiming the company owes wages to their unpaid interns. Wang claims that she worked 40-55… 11 / Read more »

• Day in Review

  Henry Miller’s 11 commandments for writing A poem forest….? Cuckoo’s Nest still flying at 50 Authors Guild: Publishing’s ecosystem on the brink Paul Auster responds after Turkish PM calls him… Read more »