March 2012
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WatchAs you know, we’re very excited for IMAGINE by Jonah Lehrer (two more weeks!). Remember you can get his e-backlist for e-cheap, e-here. e-ha.
Also, here’s a discussion guide, which will help you get even more out of this endlessly enthralling book, with prodding questions like:
“How does mood affect our ability to have insights?”
and
“Are we ‘biologically...
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Reminder: Win a Book Wednesday!
You’ve got the rest of the night to enter to win a copy of HOUSE OF STONE by the late Anthony Shadid.
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Happy 100th birthday to the Oreo! Celebrate with the projects from CUPCAKES, COOKIES, AND PIE, OH MY! by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson.
(Tumblr is making them neon, not me. WHY oh why??)
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Publishers Weekly reviews Saramago’s Manual of... →
hmhlit:
Publishers Weekly reviews Saramago’s Manual of Painting and Calligraphy as its “Pick of the Week!”
After publication of the late Nobel Prize winner’s final novel, Cain, along comes the first English-language translation of his first book. The first-person narrative centers on H., a…
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Washington Post reviews HOUSE OF STONE →
“His symphonic narrative strikes many notes — elegiac, ironic, angry, funny (in a rueful sort of way).….He also turned the experience into one of the finest memoirs I’ve read. It’s a shame, almost an injustice, that he did not live to see it in print.”
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The 10 Best Fictional Bookstores in Pop Culture →
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The Missing Pages →
Natalie Dykstra’s Biography of CLOVER ADAMS, review from The New York Times.
Dykstra “gracefully describes [Clover’s photographs] in the sort of detail that distinguishes this biography from earlier ones.”
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Reminder: Win a Book Wednesday!
Don’t forget to enter to win a copy of Anthony Shadid’s HOUSE OF STONE! You’ve got until next Wednesday.
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Video update from Peter Jackson, on the set of THE... →
HOW. EXCITED. ARE. YOU?
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NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’ talks to...
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These are some cuh-razy bookshelves →
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February 2012
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“There was one neuron in one person that responded only to pictures of Jennifer...”
– Today on Fresh Air: understanding the Jennifer Aniston neuron (via nprfreshair)
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Win a Book Wednesday
It’s all about HOUSE OF STONE right now, so enter now to win a copy of this heartbreaking and enduring work from the late Anthony Shadid.
Enter here to win.
Official rules here.
HOUSE OF STONE is the story of a battle-scarred home and a war correspondent’s jostled spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this poignant and resonant memoir, the author of...
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