Terry Eagleton wants readers to put the emphasis on the writing, not the plot (A major critic says we’ve forgotten how to read. Does it matter?
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The Last of the Doughboys by Richard Rubin tells the stories of the few remaining survivors of the unfortunately-forgotten First World War. 
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British literature has become less emotional over the last half-century in the absence of tumultuous events such as the Second World War, a study of five million books has found.
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With Imprints and Tie-Ins, Street Lit Is Gaining Muscle New York Times “It's a perfect imprint for the way the book industry is suffering,” Johnny Temple, the publisher and editor of Akashic, said recently.
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It's time for summer reading! Here 16 TEDsters—from speakers Sarah Kay and Raghava KK, to attendees Rainn Wilson and Bill T Jones—pick books. (Interested in some summer reading?
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Rafe Mair reviews Nikiforuk's 'theories be damned' look at our fossil fuel servitude.
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'Various Small Books,' Inspired by Ed Ruscha, and More New York Times In the late 1970s, I purchased a half-dozen pocket-size paperback books that bore the name Ed Ruscha.
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Book News: World's Oldest Torah Scroll Found, Italian Scholar Says NPR The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
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Bookshelves are designed in our homes, schools, offices, libraries and companies to keep books, office files and other documents at place. Today, bookshelf is not just a piece of furniture rather it has also taken a form of art.
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In an unusual move before a trial, a federal judge expressed a tentative view that the U.S. Justice Department will be able to show evidence that Apple Inc engaged in a conspiracy with publishers to increase e-book prices. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who is set to oversee a trial on June 3, gave her view during a pretrial hearing on Thursday. While she stressed that the view was not final and that she had read only some of the evidence so far, her comments could add to pressure on Apple to settle the lawsuit, in which the Justice Department accuses the company and five publishers of conspiring to fix e-book prices. "I believe that the government will be able to show at trial direct evidence that Apple knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of e-books, and that the circumstantial evidence in this case, including the terms of the agreements, will confirm that," Cote said. Orin Snyder, a lawyer for Apple, said in a statement, "We strongly disagree with the court's preliminary statements about the case today." The Justice Department declined to comment. Click headline to read more--
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Country Music Legend Dolly Parton's New Role: 'Book Lady' PBS NewsHour Country music legend Dolly Parton has delivered nearly 50 million free books to children's homes.
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ABC News (blog) 5-Year-Old Reads 875 Books in Kindergarten ABC News (blog) ht sophia moss tk 130530 wblog 5 Year Old Reads 875 Books in Kindergarten They say you can't judge a book by its cover, and for 5-year-old Sophia Moss, that would be true.
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Welsh town writes the book on literature, eccentricity USA TODAY Booth is the bookseller who in the mid-1960s came up with the idea of scouring the closing libraries of the U.S.
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A viable alternative to our banking system which would help us move away from the current boom/bust cycle - http://t.co/CsPFULvpdD
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Helen Fielding opens up about new Bridget Jones book USA TODAY Fielding, 55, told the crowd the new Bridget is a "fun" book, adding, " I'm not trying to write social commentary." But comedy, she said, "always comes from a place of truth."...
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These paper-and-ink drafts offer glimpses into the creative habits of 25 authors who wrote their timeless works the old-fashioned way.
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Ghassan Zaqtan will be able to receive Griffin poetry prize following outcry over government's initial refusal to admit him (Canadian visa refusal for Palestinian poet overturned after social media campaign http://t.co/1eaB813T7V via...
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What happens when a dream you've held since childhood ... doesn't come true? As Lisa Bu adjusted to a new life in the United States, she turned to books to e...
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If you've made it all the way through any of these, give yourself a pat on the back. Bonus points if you actually understood what you were reading.
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Yahoo! Music (blog) Yahoo! On the Road: Books That Change Lives Yahoo!
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro focuses on the adult life of three friends who, as children, lived a strange life where they were always taught how special they were.
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by Jonathan Blaustein They say nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Whoever ever they are, that is.) To that short list, I’d add another constant: change. Take people, for instance.
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Parents who have young children at home are a relatively tech-savvy group. They are more likely than other adults to have computers, internet access, smartphones, and tablet computers.
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I was fully prepared to ignore the National Book Critic Circle's latest effort to organize a confab parroting prefab guidelines for how to review books, influence the few, and otherwise eat your own tail.
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Why have I taken to reviewing books on Amazon? I can't answer that question. All I can do is own up. I like to think my reviews are serious and well-reasoned. Many, obviously, will disagree with them.
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