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On Censorship (“Even more serious is the growing acceptance of the don’t-rock-the-boat response to those artists who do rock it, the growing agreement that censorship can be justified when certain interest groups, or genders, or faiths declare themselves affronted by a piece of work.”)

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May is World in Translation Month, where independent book stores promote literature in translation.

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The Enemy Within (“If America stopped searching for goblins under the bed, it might actually be able to reset its economic priorities and start investing in the things that would make the [...]

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Monday is World Book Night

Voting in the Independent Book Blogger Awards ends Monday night.

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Death and the Library (“In a house of readers, what, more than books, allows access to the inner lives of its occupants?”)

Tracking Creation in Glen Rose (“In the beginning, [...]

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The Death of the Book (“Pity the book. It’s dead again.”)

My Kasual Kountry Weekend With the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (“This much, at least, is true: today’s Ku Klux Klan is a destination of last resort for the castoffs of American society.”) (via)

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My Sweet 16 started yesterday. I watched three NCAA Division I hockey games, have all or parts of five other games on my schedule for today and another two tomorrow (both will have to be DVRed because I will be at the Stampede game during the first one and don’t want to learn [...]