(via The Elegant Variation)
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The new issue of CONTEXT is available online. It includes an obituary for Mati Unt, the Estonian writer, as well as a excerpt from his recently translated book, Things in the Night.
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Speaking of obituaries, check out this new book: The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson.
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Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Dies; Ethiopian Poet Laureate, 69
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The New York Public Library has a new exhibition. Bringing One Woman’s Holocaust Experience to Life:
“Letters to Sala”: more than 100 postcards, letters, photographs and diary entries (out of a total of 300) that chronicle one woman’s experience of the nightmare that unfolded as thousands of Jews from western Poland were transported to Nazi forced labor camps.
They speak to the life of Sala Garncarz, who from the age of 16 to 21 worked in seven camps — and painstakingly saved every paper that passed through her hands.
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Larry McMurtry thanked the book publishing world in his Oscar acceptance speech. This is the same guy who thanked his trusty typewriter during his Golden Globe acceptance speech.
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Imagine a world in which there were no printed books, no daily newspapers and no magazines. There would not be the libraries or bookshops. Before Gutenberg that was what the world was like.
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The University of Tennessee has created a digital imprint: Newfound Press (via Open Access News)
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