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Sam Riley
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Time for a Digital Diet?
Anybody feeling the “encroachment of the buzz,” the multitudinous distractions that prevent us from concentrating on a book? Johann Hari is offering survival tips for these distracting times. “A book has a different relationship to time than a TV show…
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What’s Roth Been Up To?
In an interview with the Financial Times, the seasoned 78 year-old author, Philip Roth, has decidedly sworn off reading fiction by way of saying, “‘I’ve stopped reading fiction. I don’t read it at all. I read other things: history, biography.…
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Get These Authors on Your Shelves!
From a place bubbling over with intellectual stimulation and social change comes a lot of good literature. The Millions is spotlighting six Egyptian authors that you should know about, inspired by an afternoon at Cairo’s Diwan Bookstore. There’s a lack…
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How Do We Spend Our Time?
Last week the government released a survey detailing the time-consuming activities of Americans, broken down in terms of gender, race and age. Time spent working is down due to the lack of jobs and alas, an increase in reading is…
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A Bay Area Talk Tonight!
BOMB and Guernica Magazine are collaborating for a talk that is both free and open to the public. Come celebrate indie magazines by mingling with the writers and artists that contribute to them! Where: The Make-out Room, 3225 22nd Street,…
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Novak in Poets & Writers
A Poets and Writers conversation that is one part sportswriter (Bethlehem Shoals) and one part poet (Anselm Berrigan), with an accompanying illustration by our very own Jason Novak. It’s somewhere between talking-on-the-phone-to-catch-up and an interview, which makes it all the…
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The Tree of Life, in Review
The New York Review of Books’ look into Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life compares it to the prose of William James, discussing the film’s attempt at “embodying what cannot actually be embodied,” via question-posing dialogue and displays of varying…
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John Locke Remix
There’s a new John Locke who is less known for his philosophy on natural rights, and is more famous for his e-book success. In fact, he is “the first self-published author to sell a million Kindle e-books,” which makes him…
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The Story of The Story of O
A French author with three different pseudonyms wrote a best-selling pornographic novel, which was once considered “the most shocking book ever written,” so you know it’s good. This Guernica article relays the story of this elusive author, discussing her work,…
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Literary Mail
Mark Twain found another way to be immortal—and it doesn’t involve the posthumous release of a book. It’s actually one of the coolest collaborations between a US government agency and the literary arts: the Mark Twain stamp, which is the…