Behind the President’s passion for reading
George W. Bush doesn’t watch network TV, he reads. He reads a lot. (It takes a long time to sound out the words.)
George W. Bush doesn’t watch network TV, he reads. He reads a lot. (It takes a long time to sound out the words.)
Debate rages in the LRB Letters about why “Jesus needed an ass for his final entry into Jerusalem.”
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Edmund White’s NYRB essay on Marguerite Duras reveals that she worked as a censor under Nazi occupation, a period that saw the withdrawal of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and of titles by Freud, Zola, and Colette, while Quantities of paper … were allotted to the publication of Goebbels’s memoirs, Paul Claudel’s Ode to Marshall Pétain, and the vilest anti-Semitic . . .
Z sends word that the next meeting of Urban Librarians Unite is tomorrow, 6/17, at The Creek and the Cave. 7 p.m.