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Negative, rather political review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: “But Klein was intellectually unfazed. Rather than re-think the economicist … gulfstream/2483
Cigarette advertising is banned; can you advertise books that look like cigarette cartons? Tank Books publish “tales to take your breath away”; authors … gulfstream/2527
Surprisingly charming, inventive, A-Z alphabet pop-up book. gulfstream/2420
New versions of Adobe Acrobat apparently support adwords-style context-sensitive ads (!), and so Kevin Kelly has released a version of his book True Films … gulfstream/2371
“The Charms of Wikipedia,” by Nicholson Baker. The first section neatly captures the charms of Wikipedia, and the last is a nice account of Baker’s … gulfstream/2407
“Today, more than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white … gulfstream/1721
On Tony Wheeler, the founder of Lonely Planet. gulfstream/1722
Lone Star Statements: One star Amazon reviews of notable books. gulfstream/1919
Re audiobooks: how to read footnotes, and other textual annotations? (David Foster Wallace apparently says “dot dot dot” when he hits an ellipsis.) … gulfstream/1949
Great, informative, exchange between Valerie Lawson, the author of a book on the creator of Mary Poppins (Pamela Travers) and The New Yorker. … gulfstream/1956
“There’s no reason for it to exist in English”: Garrison Keillor is very unhappy with Bernard-Henri Lévy’s survey of America. One complaint … gulfstream/1963
Not ideal: Annie Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain” apparently used to be at this URL, but it’s (effectively) a 404 now. The … gulfstream/1966
“There’s no substantial business today in charging companies money for the privilege of indexing one’s book …” I do so enjoy Cory Doctorow’s … gulfstream/1976
Wow, Annie Proulx is real unhappy Crash got the best picture Oscar. “And rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies … gulfstream/2016
“Anti-travel” through forgotten & useless parts of Russia. (Vissarion profile) gulfstream/2018
History of The New Yorker via the recently-released CD anthology. Less than affectionate; attempts to diminish. (e.g. “The New Yorker is the only magazine … gulfstream/2089
Remarkably honest and straightforward (feelingless?) autobiographical account of Robert Hughes’s first marriage. “We met at a drinks party in Notting … gulfstream/2142
Fun interview/profile of Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who is frequently described as the happiest man alive. gulfstream/2234
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ceo of tower books responds to letter from angus and robertson demanding that they sell a&r books at cheaper prices
