Alan Kaufman
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Alan Kaufman is a San Francisco poet and author whose books include
'Matches', a novel (Little, Brown), 'Jew Boy', a memoir (FSG/Foxrock), The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Basic Books) and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature (Basic Books). His essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Salon.

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Google Books And Kindles: A Concentration Camp Of Ideas

Posted December 4, 2009 | 14:20:10 (EST)

When I hear the term Kindle I think not of imaginations fired but of crematoria lit. And when I hear the term "hi-tech" I think not of helpful androids efficiently performing household chores or light-speed rockets gliding seamlessly through space but of the fact that between 1933-45, modern technology was...

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