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Ernest Hemingway’s “Suicidal” U-Boat War

Ask a Book Question: #75 (Murakami and Books to Read in Japan)

The Bat Segundo Show: Dick Cavett

Private school library gets rid of all books

Where the Wild Things Went

How To Promote a Book on Teacher’s Salary

In Praise of Risky Covers

Jovanka Vuckovic Speaks at The HP Lovecraft Film Fest 2008

The Black Death: A Personal History

Why are we still reading Dickens?

MORE AFTER THE JUMP

Twitter and Gourmet Sex: They’re in the Dictionary Now

Think Lord of the Rings meets His Dark Materials…

Would You Accept a One-Way Ticket to Mars?

Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker?

Review: Passing for Human, edited by Michael Bishop and Steven Utley

I Don’t Want to Hate Self-Publishers…

Google Books: Authors Guild comes out swinging at Amazon

Summer heat or apocalypse? Three books offer answers.

The Drowning City — Amanda Downum

Judge questions whether Salinger harmed by spin-off

Hal Duncan: Columnist of Sodom

How Not to Engage/Enrage Fandom in One Simple Lesson

Classics, Comics In Masterful Mashups

How to Talk about Sea Monsters

Up Close And Personal With The Dung Beetle

Werewolves are the new vampires (which were the new black)

Literary quips, observations, instructions & warnings #7

Shorties (Flaming Lips, Best Southern Nonfiction, and more)

In the News: The Return of Bat Boy, Tennessee Textbook Blues

6 DEGREES OF DORIAN GRAY (art from a new edition)

Why Geeks Rock by Julie Cohen, author of Girl from Mars

Fall sleeper: A blind cat leads the way in ‘Homer’s Odyssey’

At Home With E. L. Doctorow: Writing About the Stuff of Legend

Lev Grossman Responds to Criticism of His Wall Street Journal Piece

Book Nerd Gift Alert

Big Science Cannot Save Us

The Literary iPhone

A New Literary History of America

TS Eliot rejected Bloomsbury group’s ‘cursed fund’ to work in bank

Nick Hornby on his readers and new projects

How YouTubers Deal With Rejection Letters (By Burning and/or Shooting Them Off in a Bottle Rocket)

Written by Matt Staggs

September 4, 2009 at 11:13 am

Posted in links and things

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