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Politics, Nerds, Gunpowder
Cormac McCarthy’s notes reveal a recipe for gunpowder and a very different Blood Meridian. Goodreads compares the reading habits of Romney and Obama supporters. J. K. Rowling returns to children’s...
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Faulkner Nobel on the Block, and Other News
“The largest and most important group of William Faulkner material ever to appear at auction”—including his Nobel medal, an unpublished short story, and illustrated letters, recently found at the...
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Spoiler Alert: Why We Abandon Books
This infographic on “the psychology of abandonment”—that is, why we don’t finish certain books—makes for fun reading. But even more interesting is the Goodreads list of those titles most frequently...
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Ancient Vintage, and Other News
At various points, the FBI suspected William Vollmann of being the Unabomber, the anthrax mailer, and a terrorist training with the Afghan mujahideen. “Reviewers have the right to rate a book however...
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WTF, and Other News
Poet Kofi Awoonor was among the victims of the Nairobi terrorist attacks. The African Poetry Book Fund will publish his final collection next year. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal runs one of his...
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Let Us Go to the Fitness Temple, and Other News
Sascha Schneider, Athlete in Basic Position, 1907. Charles Simic uses reading, as so many of us have, to cure insomnia: “I read only a passage or two, and at the most a page, because if I read more...
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