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  1. RT @92Y Audio of Nabokov reading in 1964. The second-to-last public reading he would ever give. http://bit.ly/4c2KfU
  2. @caaf @andevers I am chimp-saluting in your general directions right now!
  3. From @laphamsquart: In 1784, Vienna's citizens had access to universal healthcare. The only cost? Their dead bodies. http://bit.ly/1dkrES
  4. My pals @amitavakumar & @alexanderchee are (w/ Lahiri, Mehta, Kunzru, Khakpour, more) part of Asian American Lit Fest: http://bit.ly/3cJgpP
  5. RT @pourmecoffee I, for one, welcome our lunar fish overlords. http://bit.ly/2cMaOg
  6. Edward P Jones hasn't written in 4 years but can dictate, down to emdashes, start & end of story he's mentally composing http://bit.ly/eTdip
  7. RT @thebookslut Goncourt winning novelist Marie NDiaye asked to tone down her criticisms of the French government. http://is.gd/4Ujna
  8. Cormac McCarthy signed copies of 'The Road' for his son, to fund future trips to Las Vegas: http://bit.ly/3iSxP2 (via @mathitak)
  9. Speaking of Eco, he's one of the architects of a giant digital cloud that could be projected onto London's skyline: http://bit.ly/2ZwNpn
  10. Controversial Manga version of Hitler’s 'Mein Kampf' appears in Japan: http://bit.ly/2F9Wbm (via @budparr)
  11. Looking back, says novelist & 'Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid' scribe Rudolph Wurlitzer, his books & films are connected: http://bit.ly/29vo7g
  12. 'I felt like a character in a Dan Brown novel,' says... Umberto Eco, of curating exhibition for the Louvre http://bit.ly/1dsQaz via @titivil
  13. @justinelavaworm Nope, I missed it. Thanks for letting me know.
  14. @justinelavaworm For real? Damn. Have you posted about that?
  15. James Jones was forced to trim gay relationships from his novel 'From Here to Eternity.' http://bit.ly/1tqhPO (via @bookbench, @kayliejones)
  16. @jane_l As a former tax attorney, I'm aware of the differences, but thanks for the tip.
  17. RT @laurenelkin cf my article on french bookselling in Five Dials: http://bit.ly/mXaCK
  18. @pen4hire Merely reporting what France does.
  19. In France, a fixed price book law requires all booksellers to sell a title for the same amount: bit.ly/2xpXdz
  20. New UK computer grading system deems Churchill speech, Hemingway text below average. http://bit.ly/1mzkhs (via @bookninja)