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“I suspect I’m not the only person starting 2012 with a resolution to buy fewer books from Amazon,” writes Laura Miller in her newest column at Salon. She’s not. In… Read more »

In December, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools (Plymouth, Michigan) Superintendent Jeremy M. Hughes removed Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, Beloved and Graham Swift’s Booker-shortlisted Waterland from the high-school curriculum after a complaint from… 1 / Read more »

What’s in a name? If the Best American Poetry blog is to be believed, the key to success in the presidential elections. In 2008 the blog proposed a ‘Trochaic Theory’,… Read more »

Okay, all of you who have made fun of people who keep visitor’s books, now’s the time to rethink your attitude: The conductor Christopher Hogwood, while flipping through an 1853… Read more »

Kobo deal closes for $315 million Shortlist for Arabic fiction prize released Charles Dickens Museum to shut for 200th anniversary year J.A. Konrath earns $100k in 3 weeks Should we… Read more »