February 2012
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How We Will Read: Laura Miller and Maud Newton
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Welcome to the second installment of “How We Will Read,” a series exploring the future of reading from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals. This week, we talked to Laura Miller and Maud Newton, founders of The Chimerist, a new blog dedicated to exploring the imaginative potential of the iPad.
Laura Miller is a writer and critic. She was a co-founder of Salon and...
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The Other Elizabeth Taylor →
Gah, posted this to the wrong tumblr!
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Whenever I venture into a seemingly well-stocked bookstore, I judge its worth by its stock of books by W. Somerset Maugham, Penelope Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Taylor. Which is why few American indies, never mind Borders or Barnes & Noble, ever measured up to the Kinokuniya stores in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney....
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Pico Iyer: The point of a long and winding... →