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E.B. White told his biographer: “The horrid truth is, my life is not all that interesting. I keep falling asleep over it, even though it was my life.”

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The “Damaged Room” at Seattle’s new Fantagraphics bookstore will feature “heavily discounted and often out-of-print books unavailable anywhere else.”

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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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