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Sontag’s Media List: NYRB, The Times, Penthouse

July 15, 2010 by thushara · Leave a Comment 

Farrar, Straus and Giroux just introduced Work in Progress, a “monthly missive from the front lines of literature,” i.e. a website and email newsletter.

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Sontag’s Media List: NYRB, The Times, Penthouse

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Aussies are avid readers of poetry (The Australian)

February 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

A MAJOR survey has revealed 85pc of Aussies are avid readers of poetry and literature, while visual arts has the biggest number of participants.

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Aussies are avid readers of poetry (The Australian)

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Here’s to the small print: The past and future of compact literature (Independent)

February 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

One of the strange by-products of the digital revolution that we are going through at the moment is that no one seems to know how big anything should be.

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Here’s to the small print: The past and future of compact literature (Independent)

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Understanding and adapting: the true reason for Kerry win (Irish Examiner)

September 25, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment 

IN A truly fascinating essay published last month on the effect of Celtic Tiger affluence, Declan Kiberd, professor of Anglo-Irish literature at UCD, said that “things are often studied only when they start to go wrong.

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Understanding and adapting: the true reason for Kerry win (Irish Examiner)