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January 6, 2011
Censor Huck Finn? Opinion Piece by Tayari Jones
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the NewSouth is publishing an updated version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that omits racially sensitive words. We consider this completely backwards and can’t …
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January 5, 2011
Water for Wednesdays
The release date of the Water for Elephants movie is set at April 22. (107 days away! I mean . . . not that I have a countdown clock on my desk …
December 20, 2010
Booksellers Rock! Rob Dougherty, Clinton Book Shop
What books recently rocked my world: Nothing Left To Burn by Jay Varner (suck-up alert), Room by Emma Donoghue, Innocent Monster by Reed Farrel Coleman, and Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. …
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December 16, 2010
Water for Elephants: The Movie Trailer
Ladies and Gentleman! Presenting … the official Water for Elephants trailer! In theaters nationwide on April 22!
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December 8, 2010
WIN THIS: Merge Giveaway
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MERGE . Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, I think it’s time that I can safely declare my love of holiday tunes. Last winter, I …
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December 6, 2010
Booksellers Rock! Emma Straub, BookCourt
Emma Straub is a native New Yorker. Her debut collection of short stories, Other People We Married, will be published by FiveChapters Books in February. She works at BookCourt, one of Brooklyn’s …
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December 3, 2010
In Memoriam: In the Time of the Butterflies
Algonquin author Julia Alvarez, who grew up hearing stories about the Mirabal sisters, and whose family fled the Dominican Republic only months before the tragic deaths, immortalized the sisters’ story in her …
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December 2, 2010
Richard Louv in the New York Times
In her “Personal Health” column in Tuesday’s New York Times, Jane Brody wrote, “I urge you to read the best-selling book Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv, who coined the …
