Archive for November, 2006

Blackwell offered early publishing opportunities to W.H. Auden, Graham Greene, J.R.R. Tolkien and Enid Blyton, but began as a small bookshop.

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Why does a search for Albert Camus’ The Stranger return an American study guide as the first result? A French historian poses this and other questions.

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In the Double-Tongued Dictionary, Grant Barrett has collected a metric buttload of fucking slang.

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“Here’s your Patriot Act.” (When a country embraces torture, it doesn’t stop overseas.)

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St. Mark’s Bookshop and a handful of bookstores nationwide will stay open past midnight Monday so “diehard fans, conspiracy theorists and other assorted paranoids” can buy Pynchon’s latest. (Via; via.)

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