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Neruda Poisoned?
Via bbc.co.uk
Dec 2011
Chile’s Communist Party wants Pablo Neruda’s body exhumed to determine how he died. The legendary poet’s official cause of death is prostate cancer, but his assistant alleges that he was poisoned in 1973 on the orders of Augusto Pinochet.
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Little Free Libraries
via startribune.com
Nov 2011
“They look like large birdhouses and act like water coolers. But the sustenance stored inside the wooden, windowed boxes is a blend of knowledge and recreation.”
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The Worst Business in the World
via laphamsquarterly.org
Oct 2011
“Imagine an industry where seventy percent of your products lose money.” So it is with book publishing, writes Ben Tarnoff.
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Art Works in Minnesota
via nea.gov
Oct 2011
A new NEA survey finds there of 2.1 million artists in the U.S. workforce, some 42,000 living here in the Land o’ Lakes. Other findings: Minnesota leads the nation in the concentration of jobs in book publishing, and the Twin Cities’ concentration of theater jobs is twice the national average.
