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George Washington Was A Biblioklept
George Washington was a biblioklept. MobyLives hipped us to Ed Pilkington’s Guardian article. From the article: Founder of a nation, trouncer of the English, God-fearing family man: all in all, George...
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Ralph Ellison: “I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest”
INTERVIEWER Then you consider your novel a purely literary work as opposed to one in the tradition of social protest. ELLISON Now, mind, I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest. Dostoyevsky’s...
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James Madison and the Making of America (Book Acquired, 1.15.2013)
James Madison and the Making of America, by historian Kevin R. C. Gutzman, is new in trade paperback. A blurb from the author’s website: Instead of an idealized portrait of Madison, Gutzman treats...
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Kurt Vonnegut on Twerps
From Kurt Vonnegut’s 1977 interview with The Paris Review: INTERVIEWER What is a twerp in the strictest sense, in the original sense? VONNEGUT It’s a person who inserts a set of false teeth between the...
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