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I’m at risk of my bookshelves falling through the floor, so I’m back to cleaning out the collection somewhat. One of my book collecting strategies is to keep first editions, hardbacks, and other things that are difficult to find. And to thin out the collection, I tend to get rid of classic, but inexpensive, paperbacks that…
continue readingLiterary Nemesis
There’s that scene in Rocky III when the Italian Stallion hangs a photo of Clubber Lang. Every morning and every night, Rocky stares into the mirror and sees his enemy looking back at him. Now, you might not ever reach a triumphant moment on the literary beach, when you out-pace your teacher, and you might…
continue readingProtecting Your Blind Side Is Worth Seven Figures
Variety reported that the film rights to Michael Lewis’s The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game were won by Twentieth Century Fox in “in a heated bidding war that pushed the price past seven figures.” Although Lewis’s previous best seller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game dealt with baseball, his newest book looks at college…
continue readingEditorials from the Good Old Days
As dumbed-down as most of our newspapers are these days, it’s difficult to imagine that some reader in the future will be confused by the complexity of our editorials. But maybe they will. In the wonderful Three Strides Before the Wire: The Dark and Beautiful World of Horse Racing, Elizabeth Mitchell quotes a 1916 editorial…
continue readingPessl at Pitkins
Maud Newton and Lauren Cerand point out that Marisha Pessl, author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics will appear tonight at Mo Pitkin’s in New York as part of The Reader’s Room reading series. The event starts at 7pm and also features Lorin Stein, who translated Gregoire Bouiller’s book The Mystery Guest: An Account. Should be a…
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