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Ian MacAllen
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Notable NYC: 10/24–10/30
Saturday 10/24: Eileen Tjan, Fawna Xiao, Chris Nickels, and LA Johnson celebrate the launch of The Intentional, issue 4. 20 Pulaski Street, 8 p.m., Free. Anna Lefler reads Preschooled. BookCourt, 4 p.m., free. Rodney Koeneke and Edwin Torres join the…
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Cover Art of Pre-War Germany
One of the many crimes that took place in Nazi Germany was the burning of books. Before World War II, Weimar-era Germany had a history of publishing beautiful books, many that ended up burned by fanatics. The Daily Beast takes a…
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Amazon Reviews: A Rumpus Roundup
Amazon filed suit against more than a thousand fake reviewers earlier this week. Amazon is going after reviewers who sold their reviews for $5 on Fiverr, an online platform for minor tasks. In July of this year, users began to notice…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Lohvinau House of Literature in Belarus will be one of the few shops one can buy Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s books in her native country. Her books are hard to find because Alexievich has been critical of the authoritarian government. Books…
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Notable NYC: 10/17–10/23
Saturday 10/17: Happy 6th Birthday, Greenlight Bookstore. John Reid Currie, Roberto Montes, Claire Van Winkle, and Emily Wallis Hughes join the Oh, Bernice! reading series. Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m., free. Benn Tripp and Boni Joi join the Segue Series. Zinc…
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Books and Beer
The Oakmont Carnegie Library outside of Pittsburgh hosted Booktoberfest, a celebration of books and Bavarian beer. The event not only merged the two great pastimes of reading and drinking, but also helped raise $9,000 for the library.
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Typewriters Created the Original Text Art
Before there was email circulating ASCII artwork, there was the typewriter. Hyperallergic looks back at the avant-garde world of typewriter art that includes everything from the abstract to the geometric.
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Judging a Book by More than Its Cover
Choosing the winner of the largest prize in English Literature is no easy task. Man Booker judge Sam Leith discusses the challenges of taking on this responsibility over at the Guardian.
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Our Parents Get Their Own Genre
Baby Boomer-centric literature is the next big thing, declares The Telegraph. Just as YA literature deals with one of life’s major milestones, so does boomer literature as older adults come to terms with aging, retirement, and the final chapter of their…
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Playboy to Focus on Writing
Ray Bradbury, Joseph Heller, Margaret Atwood, Jack Kerouac, and Kurt Vonnegut all found homes for their stories in Playboy. Now the publication better known for the highly photoshopped pictures of naked women plans to focus on its articles—by March 2016, the…
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Digital Technology is Valid Literature
Digital technology is changing literature. Those changes are more than just variations on traditional forms like the novel. Video game storytelling, for instance, is a perfectly valid form of art and yet often lacks recognition in the literary world. That needs to…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
The Canadian bookstore that discovered a hundred-year-old photo album has solved the mystery of the photos’ origin. They belonged to an Edmonton man born in 1919. San Francisco is a city filled with bookstores, and SF Weekly takes a look…