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January 9, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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Neighbors
- Watering Hole Amy Stein’s book “Domesticated” (Photolucida) shows that it comes in handy to have a taxidermist as a friend. For many years, Stein has created photographs in the town of Matamoras, Pennsylvania, where...
January 9, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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National Reading “2666” Month: The Title (2)
- Earlier this week, we asked for insights into Bolaño’s mysterious title. One commenter, Benny229, offered a helpful reference from the original Spanish edition of “The Savage Detectives.” Below, a slightly longer version of the quote...
January 9, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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In the News: American Illiteracy, Roads Untravelled
- A new study from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy has found that thirty-two million American adults are illiterate. Three hundred and four jobs have been eliminated at the educational-publishing unit of McGraw-Hill. Houghton Mifflin...
January 9, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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National Reading “2666” Month: The Little Gaucho
- It’s time to get down in the trenches and start looking at specific passages. (Although we still haven't answered the question of how to be critics without becoming like “the critics.”) One of our readers,...
January 12, 2009
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The Living Dead
- Thomas McGuane reads James Salter’s short story “Last Night,” and discusses Salter’s characters, his writing style, and his highly sexualized view of women.
January 8, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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National Reading “2666” Month: Day Eight
- I’m lucky in my job in that I get a lot of free books. So when I actually buy a book, it’s a big deal. And that’s what happened in March of 2007, after I...
January 8, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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Anonymous Letter
- A progression of commentators on both Metafilter and Dan Savage’s blog mention the discovery of a reference to a Mark Doty poem in the most unlikely of places—a letter sent to eleven bars with a...
January 8, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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Hope for Ye Who Enter Here
- It’s not a video game and it’s not CliffsNotes—Danteworlds is “an integrated multimedia journey” through Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Situated somewhere in cyberspace between EverQuest and Solitaire, it’s a terrific way to lose a month’s...
January 7, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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In the News: Kidnapped Writer, Rescued Editor
- The seventy-four-year-old Nigerian novelist Elechi Amadi was abducted from his home on Monday night; no ransom was demanded and twenty-three hours later Amadi was released, unharmed, near his village in the Niger Delta. The founder...
January 7, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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National Reading “2666” Month: The Cover
- I just finished the first book this weekend. I have the paperback version, so it’s not that difficult to port around with me. And as Leon Neyfakh, of the Observer, once wrote, “carrying Bolano’s...
