Archive for January, 2007

The voice of Borges

Harvard University Press has posted audio excerpts from lectures Borges delivered in 1967-68. (Via.) Evidently they are not new — except to me.

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Mahfouz’s posthumous bestseller

“The novel that almost cost Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz his life” has become a bestseller upon publication in Egypt, four months after his death. (Via.)

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Used to read books

Gawker’s new Kreepie Kats feature (above) can only be the work of the man whose Stone Cold Poetry Bitches attended last year’s AWP.

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