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Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2010.

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    We've extended the deadline for submissions to the to Jan. 31, 2020. The winning book, selected by Luis Alberto Urrea, will be published as the second in our series. More info at

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  2. "Our world is fragile. It can collapse in the blink of an eye. Even when you are strong, you can feel utterly inconsequential. Invisible before the forces that wreck your world." Amir Soltani reflects on Flight 752.

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  3. "The book is weird, but not weird like 'Naked Lunch,' or even weird like 'Lincoln in the Bardo.' It’s weird like 'The Simpsons.'" Pete Hsu on “Interior Chinatown” by Charles Yu.

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  4. "André and Simone are talking past each other: for him, it’s an art and a passion, while to her it’s a menace to civilization." Ronald Collins interviews on “The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown.”

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  5. "Do I drive faster when I’m listening to Marty Robbins, or does it only feel that way? Speed, in any case, is an essential aspect of Gunfighter Ballads." Drew Bratcher on the classic 1959 album.

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  6. "The novel is about how being female equates to being there for the taking. About how adolescent girls attempt not to be taken, and how they too take, and how they’re humiliated in either case." Martha Cooley on Elena Ferrante's new novel.

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  7. "André and Simone are talking past each other: for him, it’s an art and a passion, while to her it’s a menace to civilization." Ronald Collins interviews Karen Olsson on “The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown.”

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  8. "I’d go back to our 1946 Employment Act, and strengthen its mandate, and require that the US government ensures full employment. We haven’t lived up to that basic commitment, but I think we should." Joseph E. Stiglitz:

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  9. Jeremy Braddock harks back to the vision of the late Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, who said that, "In a society as complex as ours, the great reference libraries are an essential part of the functioning mechanism of the nation’s life."

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  10. "'Remembrance' asks us to remember the Star Trek of the late '80s and early '90s, yes, but it also ties Picard to deeper American cultural narratives of World War II and Homer’s Odyssey."

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  11. "I now imagine even his more abstract imagery as confessions, a kind of sincere surrealism." Elliot Schiff remembers David Berman:

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  12. "We need significant mechanisms (much more than our society recognizes today) for social protection." Joseph E. Stiglitz, author of "People, Power, and Profits":

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  13. . harks back to the vision of the late Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, who said, "In a society as complex as ours, the great reference libraries are an essential part of the functioning mechanism of the nation’s life."

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  14. "'Waiting for Sophia,' Aris Janigian’s fifth novel, is also to my mind his finest to date." Christopher Atamian writes:

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  15. "'Class War' smacks of a gloomy, Hobbesian war of all against all in which no side truly stands to win." Gregor Baszak writes:

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    A really great piece by on the political responsibilities of libraries since WWII — and what social media companies can, won't, learn from them:

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  17. "In that tradition of Trek, ['Picard'] draws its deepest cultural parallels with Homer."

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  19. "Behind the death cloud, there’s still a blue sky. In his music there is also God. There are dogs. There is the sea." Elliot Schiff on David Berman's Purple Mountains:

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  20. "Writing poetry is like digging all these stories and tragedies from the soil...and giving a voice to them." Anahit Poturyan’s chance encounter with Bejan Matur’s poetry leads to a fascinating conversation.

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  21. Why has our standard of living risen so much higher over the past 250 years, after centuries of not really changing much at all?

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