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Orlando Figes in trouble again for gross “inaccuracies” and “misrepresentations”
Historian Orlando Figes is in trouble again. Figes, who was last in the spotlight when he admitted writing flattering reviews of his own books on Amazon and bad reviews of books by rivals (after first saying it was his wife’s doing — see the earlier… 1 / Read more »
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Books are just too darned long, says critic
In a sprawling, two-page article Daily Beast critic Mark Wortman laments the recent glut in extremely long books. In this epically long blog post titled “Are books becoming too long to read?”, Wortman points to a series of culpably grandiose books that include the likes… 7 / Read more »
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Mar 31 2012
The Art of the Novella Series: Have one or have them all
May 24 2012
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New Carnegie Prizes announced
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Book censorship continues in post-revolutionary Tunisia
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Baz Luhrmann releases decadent new trailer for upcoming Gatsby film
May 23 2012
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Is selling direct the best way to fight Amazon? 2
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The Golden Gate Bridge: 75 years in literature 1
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Droppin science on the dictionary 1
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Video: Are print books and ebooks really equal?
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Vermont bookmobile is back on the road
May 22 2012
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Et tu, Daunt? Waterstones partners with "ruthless, money-making devil" Amazon 1
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Arguing about "marginal cost"
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Russian library discovers hidden treasure 1
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VIDEO: Jean-Christophe Valtat discusses Jules Verne at the Watch City Steampunk Festival
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Cannes likely to honor literary film this year
May 21 2012
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So long Jane Austen --- Amazon planning to have ads in Kindles 7
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Vatican threatens to sue over book
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Library book slasher on the loose in Chapel Hill
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Neil Gaiman gives a commencement speech
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Frat boys burning text books to celebrate graduation burn down frat house 7
May 18 2012
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Everybody's an Expert, or, 1,972 Amazon Reviewers Can't Be Wrong
- The DSK Affair: One Year Later, a Shakespearean tragedy
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France warns EU to watch out for Amazon's "predatory pricing"
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Winnie the Pooh house for sale
- Charlaine Harris drives a stake in the heart of her Southern Vampire series
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Is this the laziest book-related app of all time? 1
- Oxford Comma dance break 1
May 17 2012
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Hundreds of writers and scholars rally to save the NYPL
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More highlights of the DOJ lawsuit evidence show the battle is bigger than you think
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TONIGHT: Jean-Christophe Valtat in conversation with Laura Miller at BookCourt
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How to kill a book club 3
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RIP: Angelica Garnett
May 16 2012
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The new copyright agreement you don't know about
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Judge comes down hard on motion to dismiss class-action lawsuit against Apple and publishers over ebook pricing 2
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Hail & Farewell: Carlos Fuentes
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Real page-churners 1
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Pinch Pulitzer goes to David Foster Wallace
May 15 2012
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The problem with "truthiness" highlighted as David Sedaris report called into question 3
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Newly released court docs reveal Penguin CEO wanted to "make Random House hurt" for not joining fight against Amazon
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Famed English-language bookshop in Paris to close 1
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What (really) happens to your eReader when you die?
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John Updike's home will become a museum
May 14 2012
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Writer attacked on book tour
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Amazon's anti-library grows with Harry Potter deal
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt --- publisher of giants and front for Amazon --- declares bankruptcy 1
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Our child who made art in heaven 4
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The curse of being profiled in The New Yorker 1
May 11 2012
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Agents group joins the battle vs DOJ
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Reinventing libraries: ideas good and terrible 2
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The New York Times shows Tumblr its basement
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What we talk about when we talk about book covers
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BOOK TRAILER: Aurorarama
Day in Review
The art of the literary interview
Celebrating contemporary British fiction
Microinterview with Jonathan Lethem
Book about Stalin comes to an unfortunate end
50 shades of grey (the useful kind)
Taking the spoiler with the plot
Arthur Miller reads Death of a Salesman
How long till Facebook goes belly up?
LIFE book marks The Stones’ 50th
“On the Road” debuts at Cannes
Director fought through grief to make “Hemingway & Gellhorn”
