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Handsome Crooks, Crooked Reviewers
Meet “ridiculously photogenic 19th century NZ criminal” Daniel Tohill. “Wanted — literate, artful writers who can post five-star reviews of some books on amazon.com. Pay is fifteen dollars firm for...
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Gertrude Stein, Monster Hunter, and Other News
Gertrude Stein, Gelatinous Cube Wrangler, and other possible monster hunters. The Brazilian government has allotted $35 million dollars toward promoting their literature internationally. Amazon’s...
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Book Blasphemy, and Other News
Books carved with surgical tools. Related: “I’m sure what I did was completely blasphemous, but y’all … it turned out really cool.” Wallpapering with Faulkner. (His pages, not him.) How many copies...
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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largest and most important group of William Faulkner material ever to appear at auction”—including his Nobel medal, an unpublished short story, and illustrated letters, recently found at the...
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Moist, and Other News
“Other books I can’t throw away because—well, they’re books, and you can’t throw away a book, can you?” In memory of the late Roger Ebert, an essay on libraries and love. Amazon is in the process of...
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Mr. Men as Social Critique
We meet Mr Messy—a man whose entire day-to-day existence is the undiluted expression of his individuality. His very untidiness is a metaphor for his blissful and unselfconscious disregard for the...
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Librarians’ Darkest Secrets, and Other News
Shame! Librarians tell all. “I think that Napoleon was a terrific guy before he started crossing national borders. Over the course of time, his temperament changed, and his behavior was insensitive to...
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Modern Austen, and Other News
Informality, sex, reticence, and other challenges of modernizing Austen. Morrissey’s autobiography crosses the pond December 3. Starting today, Amazon.com will start collecting sales tax in...
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Amazon Is Stressful, and Other News
In honor of Thanksgiving, novels full of good food. Hundreds of writers have volunteered to sell books at indie bookstores this Small Business Saturday. An undercover BBC investigation has found that...
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Amazon, Robots, and Other News
Publishing legend André Schiffrin has died, at seventy-eight. Amazon and drones. In the immortal words of Pillow Talk, “some jokes are too obvious to be funny.” Stephen Colbert disagrees. Speaking of!...
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