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Blog Headline of the Week
How to Get Back at Your Ex: First, Kill a Bear
Bookish Linkage
The Uprise Books Project hopes to provide new copies of banned and challenged books to underprivileged teens throughout the country free of charge.
SF Signal has made its guide to NPR’s top 100 SF and fantasy […]
In an Oxford lecture earlier this year, literary critic James Wood suggested that the “New Atheists” might be well served by looking to the modern novel. He says atheists — and some Christian fundamentalists — insist too much on polemic literalism. Novels, he said, are a vehicle to explore theological arguments and make real the […]
This month’s lust list reflects that we’re into the fall/winter release cycle. In fact, there are actually two other books that would have made the list except I got them through the library between last month’s list and this one. Granted, two of the books below don’t actually come out until next month but that […]
Bulletin Board
The South Dakota Festival of Books is next week in Deadwood.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
I Committed Murder (“And even cases of undisputed guilt can continue to haunt executioners to the end of their days.”)
A brief history of the brain (“Not only did the growth in the size of […]
As another Banned Books Week comes to an end, I thought I would make mention of a few other items that appeared in the blog world about it this week, along with a news item.
Two blogs took rather unique approaches to Banned Books Week. NYRB Classics blog highlighted some of its authors who struggled […]
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