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Our Reading Lives: Thomas Mann Appreciation Day 27 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
This is a guest post by Rachel Cordasco. Rachel has a Ph.D in literary studies (which means she’s read WAY TOO MANY books over the years) and has taught American literature and composition. She has al...
15 Fabulous Bookish Pinterest Boards 27 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
There’s a lot of bookish goodness out there in the vast Pinterest wasteland of oddly flavored cupcakes and questionable beauty secrets, but it’s not always easy to find. When you really strike gold, ...
So You Hate Short Stories? 27 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
This is a guest post from Jacob Tomsky. He is a dedicated veteran of the hospitality business. Well-spoken, uncannily quick on his feet, and no more honest than he needs to be, he also is the founder ...
The Letter The New York Review of Books Should Have Written to VIDA 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Dear VIDA, We received your letter. We heard your rage, your frustration, your despair over the fact that we, one of the nation’s and world’s leading book review publications, employ a disconcertingl...
Trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug…Made with LEGOs 27 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
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Critical Linking: August 27th, 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The desk faces the Alban Hills, the Apennines. The terrace, just beyond the doors, gives onto a sweep of time and space, from the Forum and the Palatine all the way to EUR, a neighborhood that Muss...
Grading Aimee Bender’s THE COLOR MASTER, Story by Story 26 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
You know how some people feel about Neil Gaiman? Or Joss Whedon? Or Alan Moore? That level of evangelical-superchurch-backwoods-speaking-in-tongues fandom? That’s how I feel about Aimee Bender and her...
Buy, Borrow, Bypass: August 26, 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson Mystery novelist Josephine Tey is spending her 40th birthday in the resort town of Portmeirion with Alfred Hitchcock and crew, taking a holiday while they film a ...
Sites We Like: Type Hunting 26 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Type Hunting is the simplest of tumblrs (just images) of seemingly ordinary objects (mostly commercial packaging and signage), but its focus on the fonts of early to mid-century mass market objects ma...
The Book Riot Podcast, Episode 16: Climax at the Climax 26 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about Elmore Leonard and Albert Murray, Barnes and Noble’s Nook reversal, the largest publishers in the world, high school reading lists through the years, and new way...
