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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes We Are Alive (“…you cannot underestimate the fine power of self-loathing in all of this.”) Bookish Linkage Literacy gap between rich and poor studies widens in the summer (via) How reading makes you more human Ten books to put hair on your chest Clifford the Big […] As David Hadju documents in his excellent examination of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s, The Ten-Cent Plague, adults saw the genre as contributing to juvenile delinquency and even subverting American values. This uproar, which included U.S. Senate hearings, led to the creation of the Comic Codes Authority in 1954. Yet even before the […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes The Bookless Library (“Clinging to an outdated vision of libraries is in fact the best recipe for making them look hopelessly obsolescent to the men and women who control their budgets[.]”) Worthwhile Reading about Aurora One More Massacre (“The truth is made worse by the reality that no one—really […] Bulletin Board The presenters for the 2012 South Dakota Festival of Books have been announced and you can now register for the event, Setp. 27-30 in Sioux Falls. Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes What Can Happen to You When You Read (“The other thing that happens when you’re a reader is that your hunger […] |
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