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What is BookLamp and Why Did Apple Just Buy It for $15 Million?
What is BookLamp and Why Did Apple Just Buy It for $15 Million?
By Michelle King
July 29, 2014

What does the computer company want with the so-called “Pandora of Books?”

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Speak, Memory: When Novelists Turn to Memoir
Speak, Memory: When Novelists Turn to Memoir
By Freddie Moore
July 25, 2014

If Nabokov’s memoir catalyzed Lolita, who knows what memoir writing can do for Gary Shteyngart and Tom Robbins.

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William Burroughs Ruined My Life
William Burroughs Ruined My Life
By Daniel Genis
July 24, 2014

He didn’t stick the needle in my arm or the place the knife in my hand, but he put the idea in my head.

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We Answer Every Question You Have About Kindle Unlimited
We Answer Every Question You Have About Kindle Unlimited
By Michelle King
July 24, 2014

1. What the hell is a Kindle?

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The Gold Fuss
The Gold Fuss
By Stephen Piccarella
July 24, 2014

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt’s latest novel, has pit critics against one another, but what’s all the fuss about?

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How Raymond Chandler Took Down Sherlock Holmes
How Raymond Chandler Took Down Sherlock Holmes
By Benjamin Welton
July 23, 2014

In celebration of Chandler’s birthday, we look back on “The Simple Art of Murder,” his seminal essay which broke the British stranglehold on detective fiction.

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Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. II
Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. II
By Michelle King
July 23, 2014

Literally bumping into a crush reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace at Emerson College in Boston.

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Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. I
Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. I
By Adina Applebaum
July 22, 2014

Falling for a straphanger reading The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon on the subway in New York.

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No One Needs to Apologize for (nor Destroy) Manic Pixie Dream Girls
No One Needs to Apologize for (nor Destroy) Manic Pixie Dream Girls
By Adina Applebaum
July 21, 2014

Thanks but no thanks, John Green.

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South Florida Barber Shop Doubles as Library (Finally, Some Good News out of Florida)
South Florida Barber Shop Doubles as Library (Finally, Some Good News out of Florida)
By Michelle King
July 21, 2014

Young men are grooming their minds as well as their hairdos at Royal Touch Barber Shop in Sunrise, Florida.

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