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Trunk Full of Bloomsbury Letters to Be Auctioned
What is believed to maybe be the last significant trunkload of Bloomsbury letters is about to be auctioned off on September 3rd. The collection, containing about 700 letters were all sent to Helen Anrep, a friend and supporter of many…
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Morning Coffee
On football and independent bookselling. Bolivian salt flats, way more interesting than it sounds! The evolutionary benefits of chronic depression. Life on mars? probably! The film version of the Wizard of Oz turns 70 this year, some dudes want to…
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Attention Spans are Not the Problem
A few weeks ago, I argued that the Internet age was uniquely well suited to selling short story collections. A few commenters did not agree with what seemed to be implicit in my argument: the idea that the “short attention…
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Tom Wolfe Takes on the Rich
“‘Tarantulas’ was the term the late-19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche—steady … steady … some of us rich people went to college, too—used for those who are consumed by resentment. Unable themselves to be great men, they burn with a feverish fervor,…
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The Great Beast’s Landlady
Rodney Davis has a very entertaining essay up about talking to Aleister Crowley‘s landlady Kathleen “Johnny” Simonds. Apparently, Crowley lived with Simonds shortly before his death, and despite his reputation as “The Wickedest Man Alive,” he was a very solid…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
This week, the book blogs have been talking about the future of reading and literature, which leads me to believe that they don’t think it’s dead. I don’t believe them. The sad truth is that they’re taking Reading Rainbow away…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s the end of August. While most of the world is on vacation, Rumpus Books is publishing book reviews.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Jim Murdoch’s piece on the reader’s responsibility to breathe life into poems is fascinating. At the very least, it’s a good metaphor for people who teach poetry to those who don’t read it much. Here’s a look back–way back–at some…
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Remembering Hurricane Katrina
The fourth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina would likely be garnering bigger headlines right now if not for the death of Senator Edward Kennedy. It might have even drowned out the howling over “socialized medicine” and “death panels”…