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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Writers’ Homes at Risk
Over the past year or so The Rap Sheet, the crime fiction blog of January Magazine has been covering the…
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!…
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…
NY Diary 1: Lint
Featuring Reader editor Philip Davis on 6th Avenue with our Spy from NY, Enid Stubin, she removing the lint from…
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…