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Authors Often Portrayed as Helpless or Vindictive... →

Mar 29th

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Princeton Students Are Reading Children's Books... →

Princeton’s ENG 385: Children’s Literature was one of the fastest courses to fill up this year. If you read the comments on this article, you can see that cynicism is also alive and well at Princeton, but I think this serious study of the evolving nature and popularity of Children’s Literature notes a future that is full of readers! What do you think? ^KE

Mar 29th

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“And I guarantee you maybe one percent of everyone who is listening to this...”

– Andrew Vachss (in conversation with Joe Lansdale… How did that room contain so much awesome?)

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Dan Chaon on Understanding Fictional Characters →

I know a few authors who could benefit from reading this. *coughjonniefcough* ^KE

Mar 21st

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Graham Greene's Power and the Glory Inspired by... →

A creepy, yet interesting revelation. ^KE (via bookslut)

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“An article last Sunday about the challenges in turning the young-adult novel...”

– Corrections - March 18 - NYTimes.com When corrections need corrections. (via rachelfershleiser) Dystopian??

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Chock Full of Hoot, just a leetle bit o' nanny!:... →

chockfullofhoot: openbookstore: chockfullofhoot said: Of all my Gaiman books, only one is unsigned…and I will get that signature if it’s the last thing I ever do! Ooh! Which ones are signed? And which one is unsigned??? 3 different signed American Gods, Coraline, Good Omens, The Graveyard… !!! Color me officially jealous. I have a signed paperback of American Gods and Neverwhere...

Mar 18th

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What's the Worst Book?

A customer just came in with a fun question- what’s your least favorite book in the store? I gave him a Gor book by John Norman. What would you have given him?

Mar 18th

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chockfullofhoot said: Of all my Gaiman books, only one is unsigned…and I will get that signature if it’s the last thing I ever do! Ooh! Which ones are signed? And which one is unsigned???

Mar 18th

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The Maps of a Reader's Childhood →

Victoria Johnson explores the maps that many readers discovered as children! ^KE

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"Matilda: The Musical" is coming to Broadway! →

Yesssssss!

Mar 16th

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“But Scott, if you do respond, I think it would be helpful to explain why, in the...”

– Barry Eisler on J.A. Konrath’s blog, responding to Scott Turow’s assessment of the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against legacy publishing’s agency pricing model. (There will be many more of these back-and-forths and I, for one, am looking forward to the dialogue) ^KE

Mar 16th

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