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Passings: Remy Charlip
Via nytimes.com
Aug 2012
Remy Charlip, a choreographer and founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, passed away Tuesday at age 83. Also a prolific author of children’s books, he won three Illustrated Book of the Year citations from the NY Times.
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2012’s Worst Sentence
Via mediabistro.com
Aug 2012
Cathy Bryant wins worst sentence in this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which takes its name from the man who penned, “It was a dark and story night…” Her entry muses on whether—when mites are involved—eyes are really the window to the soul.
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Steinbeck & the State
Via beaumontenterprise.com
Aug 2012
John Steinbeck’s son is “deeply troubled” by the execution of Marvin Wilson, who had an IQ of 61, last night. He criticized Texas’ appeals court for using the Of Mice and Men character Lennie in its rationale for the appeal ruling.
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Passings: Gore Vidal
Via washingtonpost.com
Aug 2012
Author and cultural icon Gore Vidal died Tuesday at age 86. His 60-year career spanned from film and television to theater and literature—most notably Ben Hur and his openly gay 1948 novel The City and the Pillar.
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Cat Break
Via writersandkitties.tumblr.com
Jul 2012
This week’s feline foray goes literary: a blog dedicated entirely to photos of writers and their kitties. Atwood, Burroughs, Bukowski, Colette, Foucault, Lessing, Sartre—cat lovers all. Our fave: Aldous Huxley and cat contemplating a brave new world.
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Underground Reads
Via undergroundpubliclibrary.com
Jul 2012
A NYC artist has created a “visual library” by photographing people reading on the subway. Riders featured on the Underground New York Public Library blog have been spotted reading books such as Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays and Nietzche’s The Birth of Tragedy.
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Somaliland Book Fair
Via guardian.co.uk
Jul 2012
In Somaliland, an independent republic in Somalia, 70 percent of the population is under 30. Seeking an alternative for this age group to chewing khat or enlisting with al-Shabaab, Jama Musse Jama has started a book fair, now five years old.
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Remembering Rosemary
Via startribune.com
Jul 2012
Commemorating the passing of Rosemary Furtak, the Walker’s librarian for 29 years, Mary Abbe recounts how sculptor Sol LeWitt donated $500 for her to start an artists’ book collection—used to buy works by Ed Ruscha, Richard Tuttle, and others.
