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William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central | A Short Riff on a Long Book

Originally posted on Biblioklept: Kilian Eng 1. William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central,  811 pages in my Penguin trade paperback edition (including end notes), is a virtuoso attempt to describe or...

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Five Fascinating Facts about George Orwell’s 1984

Originally posted on Interesting Literature: 1. George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on this day, 8 June, in 1949. But this wasn’t the original title of the novel....

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Words, Glorious Words

Originally posted on Eleventh Stack: Over the weekend, our friends at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the Oxford Dictionaries Online added some new words to its listings.  More than 400 of...

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Review #75: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks

Originally posted on The Book Cat: Rating:  3 This was my pick for psychology.  Not having a background in the field and lacking familiarity with the associated jargon, I was hoping to find a book...

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Readers (Guardian Cover) — Tom Gauld

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Talking Tats with Taylor

Originally posted on The Hooch: News & Events: Our next special-focus issue, due out in January, is all aboutSkin. Eva Talmadge, co-author ofThe Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms...

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Mary Magdalene Reading — Ambrosius Benson

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Jon Scieska & Lane Smith – Math Curse and Science Verse

Originally posted on The Book Wars: This week I present to you two books that are an interesting mix of nonsense and non-fiction. Math Curse and Science Verse, created by author/illustrator team Jon...

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Dr. Seuss: Politics in Children’s Literature

Originally posted on A R T L▼R K: On the 2nd of March 1904,the famous writer and illustratorTheodor Seuss Geisel, known as ‘Dr. Seuss’, was born in Footloose, Springfield, MA, USA. An Oxford...

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The Unbearable Ironies of Libraries in Wartime

Originally posted on Flavorwire: Yesterday we learned from Yahoo News! that ISIS has used improvised explosive devices to destroy several historic landmarks in the Iraqi city of Mosul, including the...

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