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Weekend Edition: 7-14

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 […]

Weekend Edition: 7-7

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Thank you for killing my novel (“This may be the most sadistic moment of belated fact-checking in the history of mankind. The New York Times, the paper of record, had written a fictitious character to verify a fact.”) (via)

America’s Move to the Right (“…that so many Liberals […]

Weekend Edition: 6-30

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Perfect Listen (“It’s usually anywhere between the second and fifth listen that fragments that maybe weren’t evident on first glance suddenly come at you or your brain makes a connection that could only have been made indirectly. That’s when a song start to mean something to you.”)

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Weekend Edition: 6-23

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

In Praise of Leisure (“The irony, however, is that now that we have at last achieved abundance, the habits bred into us by capitalism have left us incapable of enjoying it properly.”) (via)

Bookish Linkage

Books that shaped America

Ten life lessons we learned from children’s books

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Weekend Edition: 6-16

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought (“All reflected a mind-set and a pattern of behavior that were uniquely and pervasively Nixon’s: a willingness to disregard the law for political advantage, and a quest for dirt and secrets about his opponents as an organizing principle […]