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BBC Free Thinking Festival: A Festival of Ideas

Free Thinking 07, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Merseyside's unique festival of ideas launches in Liverpool this Friday (November…

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What Should I Read Next?

If you're the kind of person who dithers over what to read next features like Amazon's recommendations and 'People who…

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Literature

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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Literature

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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Calderstones

NY Diary 5: Chicago

I flew from New York to Chicago to visit Literature For All Of Us and stayed one night at the…

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The Reader Magazine

The Reader Magazine: Special Offers

Here at The Reader organisation, we don't really like to do things in a conventional manner. So instead of having…

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NY Diary 4: Beautiful bookshop Middlemarch reader recites lines from the novel…

In Grand Central Station we went into the bookshop and when I finally made my way to the counter to…

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Publications

Stubin’s Guide to Healthy Eating: Pickles

The Reader New York editor Enid 'Sparrow' Stubin on Pickles: ‘As far as Jewish cuisine goes, sour pickles are a…

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Literature

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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Calderstones

NY Diary 2: Of Unicorns and Mary Poppins

Reader editor Philip Davis has been in New York promoting his new book, a biography of Bernard Malamud. He has…

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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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Shared Reading

Links We Liked for October 30, 2007

This week's Links We Liked has the smell of the scriptorium. First up is an amazing post about a robot…

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