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About a month ago, This American Life aired a story on California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner’s book Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a… Read more »

Coincidence? As described in this Wall Street Journal article by Alexandra Alter, we don’t think so: Martin Amis says his new novel, “The Pregnant Widow,” isn’t remotely autobiographical, but members… Read more »

After seeing some advertisments for some e-reading apps promising to help writers and publishers “reach new readers” and give short fiction a “new and different life,” and to allow readers… Read more »

On this day in 1048 the great Persian poet Omar Khayyam was born in Nayshapur, Iran. A brilliant polymath, Khayyam was a mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physician and poet. Most renown… Read more »