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  1. Oprah's Book Club is back in action, relaunching with @CherylStrayed's WILD: mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/the… about 12 hours ago via TweetDeck
  2. Elif Batuman (@BananaKarenina) has a great piece in the @LRB this week on the furniture of fiction: themillions.com/2012/06/hi-fir… about 14 hours ago via TweetDeck
  3. "The tree that became this particular book was a 37-year-old spruce, tall and sturdy, by the name of Larry." themillions.com/2012/06/a-note… about 16 hours ago via TweetDeck
  4. Top Ten Time! Our latest list of what Millions readers are reading is out! bit.ly/M7vQUw about 18 hours ago via TweetDeck
  5. Hats off to Larry, the lovable spruce who gave his life to become a book: themillions.com/2012/06/a-note… about 19 hours ago via TweetDeck
  6. Good news: There’s a new Alice Munro collection coming this fall bit.ly/KlApvW about 20 hours ago via TweetDeck
  7. The new Les Misérables big-screen adaptation stars Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. Ready? (themillions.com/2012/05/les-mi…) 6:46 PM May 31st via web
  8. "The worst part about reinventing yourself in this godforsaken economy is not about the money" (themillions.com/2012/05/write-…) 1:13 PM May 31st via web
  9. Pssssst! @Dalkey_Archive Press is having a stupendous Summer Sale. dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=156… 11:15 AM May 31st via web
  10. We're doing some work on the site today, so the regular crop of Curiosities will be a bit late. Meanwhile, the rest of the site works fine! 9:46 AM May 31st via web
  11. A San Francisco hotel is offering a Fifty Shades of Grey-themed accommodation deal. No comment. hotelchatter.com/story/2012/5/2… 6:39 AM May 31st via web
  12. @poemless Symbolism, of course (and addressed subsequently in a RT before). Though I guess it is a little early for humor. 6:36 AM May 31st via web in reply to poemless
  13. @rhymeswithbee From the looks of this picture, poems on Hobbits are OK, too: tnr.com/sites/default/… 5:51 AM May 31st via web in reply to rhymeswithbee
  14. @rhymeswithbee Those topics are of course fair game as well. 5:50 AM May 31st via web in reply to rhymeswithbee
  15. Happy birthday, Walt Whitman! We vote that everyone should be allowed to spend the day outdoors, writing verse about plants. 5:45 AM May 31st via web
  16. @jimmylorunning not to go on a tangent, but... 8:28 PM May 30th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to jimmylorunning
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