Copia

David Foster Wallace hits the nail on the head.

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Choose the Greatest Gatsby Cover!

Have you heard about the hot new Great Gatsby contest? Simply retweetone of our tweets about…

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Recently finished Anthony Burgess’s dystopian novel  The Wanting Seed. Set (in what seems to be) the not so-far future, Tristam and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in the Pelphase – a state overwrought with liberalism, where homosexuality is public policy…

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E-Books, Libraries and Democracy

All of the Big Six publishers have, for the first time, agreed to make e-books available to public library users.

Daily Inspiration from Updike

“I’ve never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think that the pleasures…

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Link Love

 

• Awesome pictures of Coco Chanel’s library.
• “My self-summary: Catholic and buddhist and…

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Call me old fashioned, but I’m not sure how I feel about roboticizing libraries.  But on the other hand, it’s kinda frickin’ awesome.

Co-Exist has the scoop:

The James B. Hunt Library at North Carolina State University blends novel technology with…

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Hella Sexy Author Pic of the Day - Leo Tolstoy

Oh Leo! Burn into us with your eyeballs like an intense holy-sideburned rhinoceros of love! Wrap us…

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Cats Might Rule The Internet, But Literature Loves Dogs

 

Everyone knows that the internet runs on cat videos, but according to Slate, literature is still…

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Shakespeare Was A Hoarder!

Evidently history has opted to forget that Shakespeare was a hoarder, a tax evader, and maybe even…

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