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The Death of the Book

On Monday the online retailer Amazon is tipped to release its electronic reading device known as the Kindle. This is…

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Recommended Reads: The Secrets of Harry Bright

Steven Powell has an M.A. in Victorian Literature from the University of Liverpool, and is currently studying for a Literature…

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Recommended Reads: ‘Adlestrop’, by Edward Thomas

By Julie-ann Rowell. Julie-ann is a poet whose first pamphlet collection, Convergence, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her new…

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BBC Free Thinking Festival: Going Sane

Hands up... are you sane? (A few hands hover in the air)... Insane? (A similar number of hands are thrusted…

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Reader event: Food for Thought

Members of staff at The Reader Organisation share their experiences about ‘Food for Thought', an event held at the University…

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The Art of Worldly Wisdom

It is rare that the world of books and the world of getting around to writing books come together, but…

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The Digital Library

Anthony Grafton's article 'Future Reading' which features in this week's New Yorker has created something of a stir. Its basic…

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Writers’ Homes at Risk

Over the past year or so The Rap Sheet, the crime fiction blog of January Magazine has been covering the…

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NY Diary 3: Thomas Hardy’s ‘I look into my glass’

Phil reciting 'I look into my glass' by Thomas Hardy in Sarge's Deli 548 3rd Avenue. Not Large's - Sarges!…

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Mersey Minis Launch: Number 5, Leaving

Fans of the popular diminutive book series Mersey Minis--mentioned here before--will be pleased to hear about the launch of book…

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NY Diary 1: Lint

Featuring Reader editor Philip Davis on 6th Avenue with our Spy from NY, Enid Stubin, she removing the lint from…

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Featured Anthology – Oxford Poets 2007 – Hugh Dunkerley

The last poet to feature in this series is Hugh Dunkerley, a teacher at the University of Chichester and currently…

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