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Puckish Pleadings Award: A cremation company has filed a trademark suit against another cremation company, alleging, among other things, it has “grave concerns” about its competitor. A teacher in Australia is seeking $400,000 (Australian) in damages, alleging she damaged her larynx yelling at children. What one Mizzou grad learned in law school. (I speculate that […] David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is one of the most innovative books I’ve read. The problem it creates for him is that it sets a pretty high bar in the minds of many readers, myself included. So, let’s start with the fact that his latest novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, isn’t another Cloud […] I’m going to offer up another exhibit on RIAA’s shortsightedness on the original Napster. The first song or songs I heard from Everclear’s Songs From an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning to Smile, released 10 years ago this week, were Napster downloads. I’d not heard anything by the band before I came across a couple […] Titling a book may well be an art form in and of itself. Undoubtedly, the goal is to not simply to attract a reader but to convey something about the book itself. I have no idea how much study or analysis went into naming Dean King’s Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival. […] Blog Headline of the Week Science reporting officially dead at CNN Blog Line of the Week “you cannot spell blogger without either ego or bore” (As an aside, the co-author of the first book mentioned in the post taught at the USD School of Law when I was there.) Bookish Linkage Tomorrow (July 11) is […] |
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