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Author Learns Legal Premise Of Her Book Is Wrong, Live

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Warning: This clip is the legal academia equivalent of a snuff film. [ ]

Summer Reading

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Dive in! Here are 75 of the latest and greatest books to keep you company as temperatures climb and days grow long. [ ]

My Heart: An Emotional Intelligence Primer in the Form of an Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Poem About Our Capacity for Love

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“My heart is a shadow, a light and a guide. Closed or open… I get to decide.” [ ]

“Red Goat, Black Goat” (2010) by Nadia Bulkin

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“The Goat is our real mother! She is everyone’s real mother!” —Nadia Bulkin, “Red Goat, Black Goat” From the 1930s on, fans and writers have tried to give shape and or… [ ]

Here’s an Actual Nightmare: Naomi Wolf Learning On-Air That Her Book Is Wrong

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Somewhere in the pantheon of anxiety dreams near “showing up to work naked” is “learning on-air that your book is totally wrong.” [ ]

Opinion | The Comeback of the Century

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Why the book endures, even in an era of disposable digital culture. [ ]

Streamable - free video publishing

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Check out this video on Streamable using your phone, tablet or desktop. [ ]

Naomi Wolf admits blunder over Victorians and sodomy executions

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Death sentences in 1800s were hardly ever carried out, despite claim in author’s book Outrages [ ]

Authors discuss their new book on 'moral mess of higher education'

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Authors discuss their new book on "moral mess" of higher education. [ ]

Amazon finally supports Traditional Chinese books on Kindle – TechCrunch

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A long-awaited service for readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and some other overseas Chinese communities have finally come true: Amazon has just started offering Traditional Chinese books for its Kindle E-reader. The... [ ]

50 Raymond Carver Covers from Around the World

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Raymond Carver, master of the short story, patron saint of many a creative writing program, regular of many a bar, was born on May 25, 1938. Since then, thousands of aspiring writers all... [ ]

Richard Powers: ‘I’ve read more than 120 books about trees’

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The Pulitzer-winning author of eco-novel The Overstory on Extinction Rebellion, his many alter egos and the brilliance of Robert Macfarlane [ ]

Why Persephone Books is celebrating overlooked women writers

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Persephone Books reprints neglected works by women writers of the mid-20th century. Sarah Lyall tells us what makes these books so special [ ]

Israeli writer Amos Oz (1939-2018): A critical appreciation

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Oz published 40 books of fiction, collections of essays, speeches and letters that have been translated into 45 languages, including Esperanto. [ ]

I stopped reading the dark tower about half way into wastelands, should I continue?

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I stopped because I literally got to the 100th time of someone getting a 'vision', 'dream' or 'voice' in their head and then the characters just... [ ]

Books Vs Screen - the love affair and the one-night-stand - RLC Words

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There's a place for both of them in life - but do you prefer the love affair of reading the book, or the one-night-stand you get from watching the film? [ ]

Neil Gaiman: ‘Good Omens feels more apt now than it did 30 years ago’

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Before Terry Pratchett died, Gaiman told his friend he would adapt their novel about an angel and a devil stopping the apocalypse. As Good Omens starts on TV, he discusses fame, politics and... [ ]

‘Celestial Bodies’ Wins Man Booker International Prize

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Jokha Alharthi’s family saga is the first Arabic novel to win the translated literature prize. She shares the award with the book’s translator, Marilyn Booth. [ ]

Reading With Toddlers Reduces Harsh Parenting, Enhances Child Behavior, Rutgers-Led Study Finds

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Unread Books at Home Still Spark Literacy Habits

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Growing up in a home filled with books enhances enhances intellectual capacity in later life, even if you don't read them all. [ ]

Arizona Prisons Urged To Reverse Ban On 'Chokehold' Book

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State officials view the book as being potentially "detrimental to the safe, secure and orderly operation" of prison facilities. The book looks at how the criminal justice system affects black men. [ ]

R.I.P. author and illustrator Judith Kerr

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As reported by The Guardian, author and illustrator Judith Kerr has died. Kerr was the woman behind beloved children’s book The Tiger Who Came To Tea and the lengthy series of Mog The... [ ]

THE HITCH SERIES | If—

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#poetry SUBSCRIBE for more! Thanks for Watching! Like & Share if you Enjoyed! Christopher Hitchens recites 'If—' by Rudyard Kipling. Song: Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight Christopher Eric Hitchens was... [ ]

How Nnedi Okorafor is building the future of sci-fi from Flossmoor. (Being George R.R. Martin's protege doesn't hurt.)

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Profile of Nnedi Okorafor, an Ill.-based writer whose Africa-based novels and short stories has made her one of the hottest, in-demand science fiction author [ ]

Rankin gifts archive to National Library

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The Fife-born Rebus author's collection features 50 boxes of material spanning more than 45 years. [ ]

Tiger Who Came To Tea author Judith Kerr dies

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The Tiger Who Came To Tea author Judith Kerr has died at the age of 95, her publisher HarperCollins says. [ ]

Judith Kerr, beloved author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, dies aged 95

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Author and illustrator of more than 30 books, including the Mog series based on her pet cats, arrived in England in 1936 as a refugee from the Nazis [ ]

The author asks: Is America unredeemable? Rachel Kushner’s novel “The Mars Room”

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Rachel Kushner’s new novel centers on the grim conditions in a women’s prison and draws connections between them and the general state of American society. [ ]

Not a Blog | George R.R. Martin

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Hillsborough survivors' words shortlisted for Forward poetry prize

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Truth Street by David Cain, which combines eyewitness accounts of the 1989 disaster, is nominated for best debut in year when ‘poetry has come down from its high shelf’ [ ]