Google ebooks
Google will sell digital ebooks, including at least some volumes scanned in its university library project, by year’s end.
Google will sell digital ebooks, including at least some volumes scanned in its university library project, by year’s end.
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John Williams marvels that the critical essays of inveterate wise-ass Wilfred Sheed have been allowed to go out of print.
Was David Foster Wallace’s fiction intended to show that “our satire, theory and reflexive sophistication” do not add up to an exit strategy?
Mark Sarvas compiles a list of ten literary losers, including the antiheroes of Pnin, Lucky Jim, The Quiet American, Homeland…