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Even though I’m not doing a week-long series of posts this year, I couldn’t let Banned Books Week pass without at least one. So, I thought it appropriate to mentioned banned books that helped shape the country.
Now I’m not the one who designated these books. Rather, earlier this year the Library of Congress came […]
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Tomorrow is the start of Banned Books Week. Because I am underwater at work and have scheduled a life-altering event next week, I will not have my weeklong posts devoted to the topic this year.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters (“Five decades […]
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The 2012 South Dakota Festival of Books kicks off Friday. You can download a program or register for the 10th anniversary event.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks (“The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were […]
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
Politico-psychopathology (“Not that politicians and pundits are mentally ill in a clinical sense, but politics in American national life today can only be presented in pathological form. Politics no longer involves the public use of reason; it is instead a matter of psychopathology…”) (via)
On Cursing (“There […]
There is a place where the literary world and the gaming industry intersect. It’s the Nobel Prizes. Once again this year you can place bets on who is going to win the Literature Prize.
Once again, Albanian author Ismail Kadare is considered a contender. As of this review, he’s one of three authors listed at […]
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