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What Women Publish: How Miss Pettigrew Came to Live Another Day

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chauncey Zalkin

Here are outtakes from my conversation with the smart and funny-as-hell woman who started and runs Persephone Books. Without her, Miss Pettigrew would literally not have lived to see another day.

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Coping With Book Guilt in London

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Finkle

I love books, but they foment torrents of guilt in me. I feel guilty about: the amount of money spent on them; the space they take up; the ones that rest unread while more come in as competition.

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