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Category: Professor Wu’s Rulebook
Opinion pieces; blog posts; articles
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To Marilyn Monroe, books were “a refuge and a companion” – and she collected over 400 volumes in her lifetime.
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Crime writers Jo Spain and William Shaw are on the road together. In five days, they’ll do six events; talks in the evening, signings in libraries, conversations at book clubs. ‘When they asked who I’d like to tour with, I told them I wanted someone that was a laugh,’ Spain says. ‘They sent me William.’ …
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Listen to rare audio recordings of literary greats like Sylvia Plath, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Bukowski right here, for free.
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Pledging to crowdfund a book could be the perfect Christmas gift you get someone this year (and next) – here’s why
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It’s day fifty-three of Dan Jones’ book tour and he’s in The White Hart Hotel in Lincoln, eating haddock goujons. I’m opposite him, recording everything he says. He’s already offered me a goujon, as many olives as I’d like. The White Hart Hotel is a pretty fancy place for Lincoln; earlier, while I waited for…
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In an age of anxiety and panic, author Gordon Marino explores the popularity of stoic philosophy, as well as the increasing popular appeal of existentialist philosophers like Soren Kierkegaard
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When ‘Catch-22’ was first published, Evelyn Waugh said that those who claimed it was a novel were “mistaken”, instead arguing the book was “a collection of sketches — often repetitious — totally without structure.” Yet what Waugh couldn’t (or perhaps didn’t want) to see at the time, was that Heller’s work was actually the product…
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New competition offers dog owners the chance to win a personalised ‘Paw-trait’ of their pooch worth £300
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“The Environmental movement is a big soppy pillow,” said Vonnegut. “Nobody’s going to do anything.”
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Sometimes, it seems, spoilers really can be a matter of life and death.
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