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What's A Bigger Innovation Than eBooks?

Sammy Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sammy Perlmutter

eReaders, don't approach the level of invention or edification that the wordless book does. Are eBooks changing the way we read stories, or are they merely changing the way we receive them?

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Shirley Jackson Brings A Little Horror To Library Of America

Slate Magazine | Laura Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Books, Psychological Horror, Horror Stories, Witchcraft, Library of America, Women Writers, Reading, Shirley Jackson, Books News

I promise I'm not about to accuse the Library of America of ignoring women writers. ...

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Is Shirley Jackson One Of The Greatest American Writers?

Salon | Andrew O'Hehir | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Shirley Jackson Awards for excellence in "literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic" were awarded over the weekend, and...

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Mark Twain Centennial: Rudyard Kipling's Interview With Mark Twain

Posted 05.25.2011

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This article originally appeared as a Library of America Story of the Week feature. An Interview with Mark Twain Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) From "T...

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