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What Howard Roark might have brought to Williamsburg

Is Ayn Rand the most influential female writer of the last fifty years? Lordy, I hope not, but in these days of race-to-the-bottom capitalism, I think she might be. Atlas Shrugged, the most widely-read of her tracts, first appeared fifty years ago tomorrow. When the New York Times panned the book back in 1957, one Alan Greenspan rose to its . . .

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Book prizes & sales

“Dating back to my bookstore days, out of all the major literary awards … only the Nobel reliably drove significant interest.”

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In the Gray

Jenny Diski has been sucked into the World of MetaTalk, but there’s hope. She’s not yet talking in terms of the Green, the Blue, & the Gray.

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Nobel goes to Lessing

Doris Lessing, “epicist of the female experience,” has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. The Boston Globe‘s Harvey Blume spoke with her recently.

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