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literature

Tolstoy: Russian Life on WNYC

December 9, 2011

Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life, talks to Leonard Lopate about the life and legacy of Leo Tolstoy on WNYC: (Pictured above: The UK edition of Tolstoy: A Russian Life published by Profile Books)

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Raincoast Spring Books

December 5, 2011

I was out west for the Raincoast Books spring 2012 sales conference last week. Sadly I didn’t get to see much of Vancouver or catch up with half the people I meant to, but I did get to hear about a lot of great new books including one about building (and losing) an android Philip K. [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

November 23, 2011

Design Auteur – Steven Heller on Erik Nitsche for Print Magazine: For some, book publishing was akin to the Internet of the sixties and seventies, a means of communicating information to large numbers in large volumes. In this milieu Nitsche practiced design auteurship before it was given a name, and the body of work he [...]

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Literary Devices

November 17, 2011

The Random Analogy Generator and other literary devices from Grant Snider: (via This Isn’t Happiness)

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Umberto Eco on WNYC

November 8, 2011

Umberto Eco discusses his new novel The Prague Cemetery with Leonard Lopate on WNYC:

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