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A Pound Of Flesh: Extraordinary Literary Debts

flavorwire.com | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: David Graeber, Debt, Crime and Punishment, Canterbury Tales, Literary Debt, Merchant of Venice, Charles Dickens, Faust, Shakespeare, History of Debt, Chaucer, Books News

Today marks the release of David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. In this red-bound tome, Graeber explains the concept of debt and c...

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The Year's Coolest Book Covers So Far

Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Book Covers, Video, Canterbury Tales, Meg Wolitzer, Cool Book Covers, Men Women & Children, Geoffrey Chaucer, Chad Kultgen, Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English, The Uncoupling, Books News

It's not easy to make a cool book cover. The designer usually has a million different people weighing in, each with a separate need that can potential...

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Unlikely Heroines In Literature

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Joan Didion, Unlikely Heroines in Literature, Canterbury Tales, Anna Karenina, The Gin Closet, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Leo Tolstoy, David Copperfield, Heroines, The Wife of Bath, Chaucer, Books News

Sometimes even the most literary among us need some suggestions. And who better to oblige than the authors themselves? Welcome to Bookshelf, wherein w...

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