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• Literati Joins the Bookstore Comeback Movement

  
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  The newly opened Literati Bookstore in book town USA Ann Arbor, Michigan. Today I went to check out Ann Arbor’s brand-new bookstore, Literati , located right on Fourth Street downtown, which is home to at least 4 other new and used booksellers of unique specialty. This store has been a big deal locally and joins ...
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• What to read? (Part 7) Readability

  
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  What makes the difference between those books you just can’t tear yourself away from, and the ones that take a lot of time and determination to finish? “It was a real page-turner…I just couldn’t put it down…it kept me up long past my bedtime.” You’ve heard people spout these clichéd phrases time and ...
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• John Barth on Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges

  
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  The  paralleli  of the achievements of Borges and Calvino are mostly obvious, the relevant anti- paralleli no doubt likewise. To begin with, both writers, for all their great sophistication of mind, wrote in a clear, straightforward, unmannered, nonbaroque, but rigorously scrupulous style. ”. . . crystalline, ...
  3 weeks ago

• That Other Word: Episode 10

  
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  A free online podcast discussing literature and translationAn announcement from That Other Word:That Other Word is a podcast run jointly by Daniel Medin (Center for Writers and Translators, Paris) and Scott Esposito (Center for the Art of Translation, San Francisco). Each episode features a discussion between Daniel ...
  4 weeks ago

• Shorts: The Distance of the Moon

  
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  What if the moon were just a jump away? In this short, a beautiful answer to that question from Italo Calvino, read live by Liev Schreiber. 
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