ABC News has a profile of the robot behind the digitizing of the world's books. My only question is, where can I get me one? I don't want it to digitize, but it would be nice if it could turn the pages and blow air on them to keep them separated. I am that lazy.
Our Pal The Rake visited My Brother's Bar, one of Denver's many prominent Beat landmarks, and lived to tell about it.
Dan Wickett talks to Emerging Writing Network members about their contributions to the latest issue of the Oxford American.
The Boston Globe uses the occasion of Harvard University Press' publication of an English translation of "On Hashish" to examine Walter Benjamin's drug use:
And yet, surprisingly, few writers have approached the experience of intoxication with Benjamin's earnestness, profound wonderment, and sense of purpose. Neither a recreational user nor an addict, he had a studious, deliberate, almost scholarly approach. In 1927, persuaded by some doctor friends to take part in their research, Benjamin began to dabble in a range of drugs-opium, hashish, mescaline-and recorded his experiences in a series of fragments and ``protocols": observations in Benjamin's hand alternating with the musings of his medical pals.
Ketchum, Idaho, is cashing in on Hemingway:
Everyone from merchandisers to hoteliers hawk $15,000 signed first editions of his books, offer $1,000-a-plate dinners in his home and hold a Hemingway festival during the traditionally slow fall season, transforming one of the nation's most recognizable writers into Papa the Pitchman.
Issue number three of the Hawaiian literary journal vice-versa is the Baseball Issue and includes an interview with Tony Gwynn about the art of hitting and the art of writing about hitting.
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