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All the Sad Young Literary Hotties

Keith Gessen: Author, broad-shouldered man. The Observer is really doing some excellent shoe-leather reporting on sub-cultures these days. Last week's awkward musing on Urbane Tomboys flummoxed us (aren't these girls just hipsters who wear boy...

Books That Make You Dumb

Since nobody is reading anything anymore except text-messages and blogs, then we guess it shouldn't matter which books make you smart and which make you dumb, at least according to this guy (link via Blog of a Bookslut ). We prefer literature to statistics...

Runaway Bestsellers and Fashion Icons

In the spirit of politics and exhaustion, today's Publisher's Lunch newsletter threw another hissy over this brief New York Times piece on Barack Obama's "surprise best seller," entitled The Audacity of Hope . Says the Times : "But...

Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? Or is he an inappropriate cartoon?

Young Catherine Earnshaw: The Kristen Cavalleri of Yorkshire Moors: The Real Victorian England Emily Brontë has a powerful heart of darkness Via Blog of a Bookslut : Jaemie Gallie of the Yorkshire Post reports that Wuthering Heights , Emily Brontë's classic...