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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a story about alluring surfaces and rotted insides, about beautiful lies and ugly ...
These days, we tend to take for granted that libraries will let us browse to our hearts’ content. But in ...
When it comes to poetry, timelessness is a red herring, or a white elephant, or some other distractingly burdensome creature. ...
April 17 is National Bookmobile Day! I can’t imagine a better way to celebrate than to read some awesome books ...
Library architecture/design these days is all about glass and steel, about clean lines and sans serif fonts. Don’t get me ...
Late in the night on Monday, a massive storm tore the roof off of the library at the University of ...
[Update!: Find more literary pet names in “Literary Pet Names: Canine Edition”] When my partner, Ashley, and I got our ...
In 1929 and again in 1937, sociologists Helen Lynd and Robert Lynd published hugely popular, hugely influential studies of a ...
Every year, around April 1, libraries and community groups around the world celebrate Edible Book Day. The main feature of ...
It may be trite to say it at this point, and it may be a bit more complicated than this ...