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Nov 18 2005
A Feast of Books
One of my lesser duties at TMR is to line up reviews for our book review section. This involves, among other things, flipping through the many review copies that arrive… read more
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Nov 16 2005
Librarians Unite!
Radical Reference, a group of librarians “who believe libraries have a duty to be actively involved in the day’s social issues, including feminism, poverty and racism,” are out to prove… read more
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Nov 15 2005
John Fowles Dies
John Fowles, the author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Collector, and The Magus, among other works, has died at the age of 79. As described in the New York… read more
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Nov 15 2005
The Many Lives of Jesus
With the holiday season bearing down upon us, it seems appropriate to note the arrival of two new novels about the life of Jesus from a pair of prominent American… read more
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Nov 09 2005
Testy About Testes
On my drive to school a few days ago, while I was stopped at a red light, behind a Chevy pick-up, I saw something I didn’t understand. A pair of… read more
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Nov 08 2005
Language Death and Literature
“Language death is a global phenomenon – and has been for millennia – but a global conscience to actually care and do something about it is regrettably recent.” In his… read more
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Nov 01 2005
The Fate of Independent Booksellers
It’s not just here. Two weeks after Walter Bargen, a veteran of the literary scene here in Columbia, announced at a reading that Columbia Books would be closing its doors,… read more
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Nov 01 2005
Nobody's Prodigy
Stories and poems may be timeless, but writers are not–as Stephanie Carpenter recognizes in “On Being Ma’am-ed.” Though we may long for eternal inclusion in anthologies that celebrate that rare… read more
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Nov 01 2005
Jack's Reading List and Praise for Penelope
Jack Nicholson, who is thought of as a Hollywood literati, talks about his reading habits in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. Nicholson says “I like [Andrew] Vachss’ thirllers, and… read more
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Nov 01 2005
Help for Literate Amnesiacs
Google Print today resumes its project of digitally archiving the holdings of its partner libraries (the University of Michigan, Stanford, Oxford, the New York Public Library and Harvard). The project… read more