Author Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide at age 67.
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Really really good interview with Joyce Carol Oates.
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Kurt Vonnegut has his final conversation with Kilgore Trout.
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Photos of telephone books organized by state. I remember using the last three editions of the Northern Virginia directories. Sorry, Wyoming, and various Canadian provinces.
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The NY Times has a short article about the amazing Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and more recently Dark Age Ahead.
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The seedy underbelly of amazon.com book reviews.
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what i really wanted was a 5-by-7-foot chunk of wall that would let me change the picture every day.
world's largest published book uses a gallon of ink, and required a bookbinding assembly line to be engineered from scratch. about 24 copies have been ordered.
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40 German authors get two pages each to go from zero to published book in 12 hours.
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a list of cats that live in libraries in the united states, broken down by state. for instance, smoky lives quite close to me at the boylston public library.
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lesbian erotic novel covers from the 60's: at first you are like, HA HA. then you are like, heh heh, hmmm. then you are like, geez, that's a lot. then you are like, i wonder what else is on.
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Books, not safe for work, but not really that erotic, either.