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Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy is the digital media marketing manager of Melville House.

• Air Max Nikes brought to you by Burroughs

  Remember when William S. Burroughs was featured in a Nike commercial? Neither do I, but fortunately for us the internet does. Here it is, in all its confounding beauty. Or maybe… Read more »

• Rap Genius has poetry on the brain

  Lots of people consider annotation one of the more exciting opportunities for the digital reading community. Annotation is nothing new, of course, but in terms of putting it to use… Read more »

• Read this, and this, and this and this and this

  Maybe you had the day off yesterday? Maybe like us you had exactly 123 things you wanted to read before the workweek started again. But maybe you’re also pressed for… Read more »

• Proust exhibit at the Morgan Library

  Swann’s Way, the first in Marcel Proust’s seven book volume In Search of Lost Time, was first published in 1913. Beginning today, The Morgan Library & Museum is commemorating the… Read more »

• Whale words

  The word “whale” occurs 1,685 times in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. “Elijah” is there 15 times, “Ahab” 512, and “harpoon” 256 times. I know this not from dutiful reading, but because… Read more »

• Teachers might hate him, but advertisers think he’s got a good face

  Below is an ad that displayed on the Huffington Post earlier this week. Ignore the top and focus on the bottom portion, that reads “Teachers HATE Him!!” Have a close… Read more »

• These tweets are not publishable

  A statement on Teri Buhl’s Twitter profile claims that “No Tweets are Publishable.” Buhl, an investigative journalist covering finance and Wall Street, is now threatening to sue a lawyer for… Read more »

• Seattle company wins patent for digital lending

    Earlier this week a certain Seattle company acquired what may well become a very important piece of the future ebook market: a patent that enables digital “lending.” Geekwire explains… Read more »

• LISTEN: Walter Kaufmann on Nietzsche

  Via Open Culture, here’s a recording of Walter Kaufmann delivering a lecture at Princeton titled “Nietzsche and the Crisis in Philosophy” in 1960. Kaufmann, a renowned scholar who championed Friedrich… Read more »

• Graywolf Press needs a new website

  Graywolf Press, the Minneapolis-based nonprofit publisher of Linda Gregg, Jane Kenyon, D.A. Powell, Tomas Transtromer, among many others, is seeking funding for a new website. The press is asking for… Read more »