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"The Jungle Book"... Where Books Are Seen

Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Moby Dick, Video, Natasha Bowdoin, Lewis Carroll, Leaves of Grass, Monya Rowe, Slidewide, Walt Whitman, Female Artists, The Jungle Book, Borges, New York Art, Arts News

Although we spend hours looking at books, we rarely acknowledge their physicality, especially if we're reading something on a Kindle. Natasha Bowdoin ...

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Random House, Macmillan Rage Against Amazon's Deal With Agent Andrew Wylie

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Wylie, Philip Roth, Ereaders, Random House, Stuart Applebaum, The Jackal, John Sargent, Macmillan, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Borges, Amazon, Ebooks, Books News

NEW YORK — (AP) It's war between Random House Inc. and a top literacy agency. Random House, the country's leading trade publisher, announced Th...

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Who Was Borges's Literary Idol?

The New York Times | RIVKA GALCHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jorge Luis Borges, Authors, The Wrecker, Books, Borges, Robert Louis Stevenson, Books News

More than any other 20th-century figure, Borges is the one designated -- and often dismissed as -- the Platonic ideal of Writer. His outrageous intell...

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The Reading of Wonders

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Google, Ebb Tide, Suzuki Roche, Twitter, Socrates, Elmore Leonord, Reading, Vic Damoe, Aristotle, Paul Simon, Buddhism, Borges, Healthy Living News
Michael Sigman

My fascination with the act of reading soon turned into a thirst for the pleasure and meaning only reading can provide

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The Incredible Power of Chance Events

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Random, Chance Meeting, Chance, Buenos Aires, Kismet, Probability, New York, Fate, Borges, Healthy Living News
Lee Schneider

The amazing things that have happened to me recently include kismet, random romance, encountering the famous and meeting my future wife in an unheated...

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