tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80343332024-03-06T20:58:30.176-08:00Last Word BlogBooks are a gateway drug. It starts out innocent enough, reading C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. Soon you're reading harder stuff like Kerouac and Burroughs, and next thing you know you're strung out on Bukowski and DeSade, worrying about the Patriot Act and Free Speech. If books are your drug of choice, Last Word has your fix!Last Word Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17001761689718762968noreply@blogger.comBlogger1549125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8034333.post-55417085761785204752016-03-15T12:39:00.004-07:002016-03-15T12:39:53.512-07:00FOUND: LOVECRAFT-HOUDINI MANUSCRIPT<a href="http://www.biblio.com/blog/2016/03/found-lovecraft-houdini-manuscript/?utm_source=Biblio.com+Complete+List&utm_campaign=3ce1045495-Rare_Finds+48+3%2F15%2F16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c63007520b-3ce1045495-50739121" target="_blank">Original Article Here</a><br />
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In the manuscript, the sci-fi master and the magician delve into ancient and modern superstitions, writing about werewolves, cannibals, and black magic, and advancing a “primitivist theory of the development of superstition.” The proposed book-length project came to a halt when Houdini unexpectedly died in 1926 at the age of 52. Prior to this discovery, only an outline and part of a first chapter were known to exist.</div>
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Potter & Potter will open the bidding at $13,000, although it is estimated to make $25,000-40,000.</div>
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The two-part auction of Houdiniana and the Davenport Magic Collection will also feature personal scrapbooks annotated by Houdini, rare photos and posters of him, handcuffs, keys, autographs, lock picks, and original film footage. An archive of early correspondence to Houdini from the vaudeville impresario Martin Beck, who helped transform Houdini into the “Handcuff King,” is another highlight.</div>
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Last Word Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17001761689718762968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8034333.post-11908403126026421242015-11-30T20:24:00.001-08:002015-11-30T20:24:24.399-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja8F8_-8608E_Vm9B-j0azoTF_wm_K4O_iCuutpeRlGzSPF0kmWiTg8C3S3vtseD2XHAQQ3w-TPoR4OvuqgF5msUUb1_oEzl4UzdHy4WdTZ8sbAnKO8MJ-YJtMLjhCIh8NRu1hcw/s640/blogger-image--1516668044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja8F8_-8608E_Vm9B-j0azoTF_wm_K4O_iCuutpeRlGzSPF0kmWiTg8C3S3vtseD2XHAQQ3w-TPoR4OvuqgF5msUUb1_oEzl4UzdHy4WdTZ8sbAnKO8MJ-YJtMLjhCIh8NRu1hcw/s640/blogger-image--1516668044.jpg"></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8034333.post-46488143570180830912015-11-14T11:01:00.000-08:002015-11-14T11:01:01.196-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Last Word Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17001761689718762968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8034333.post-80154582130442558832015-10-22T13:36:00.000-07:002015-10-22T13:36:48.970-07:00Out Now: Emergency Hearts, Molotov Dreams: A scott crow Reader<div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">With deep gratitude and excitement I wanted to announce in more detail my new book:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">'Emergency Hearts, Molotov Dreams: A scott crow Reader' Selected Interviews and Conversations 2010-2015'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">This book is from a new radical publishing cooperative GTK Press in Cleveland, OH that is part of the longstanding bookstore called Guide To Kulchur.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Emergency Hearts, Molotov Dreams is a selected collection of interviews, presentations and conversations that I have given over the last five years covering a variety of topics such as- anarchy, cooperatives, police brutality, prisons, animal liberation, environmental justice, surveillance and political movements. Many of the interviews have been expanded, remixed and edited from their original publications.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Preface by Tom Nomad</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Interviewers featured :</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Abby Martin , Grayson Flory, Anne Gessler, Kit O'Connell, Vic Creatuure Mucciarone, Baruch Zeichner, Jonny Gordon-Farleih, Nathan Diebenow, Matt Tedrow DJ Pangburn and Darwin BondGraham. And a co-presentation with Debbie Russell</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Front cover: Tony Shephard of Shepherd Creative/Deviated Instinct</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">210 pages</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Available at <a href="http://www.lastwordbooks.org/" target="_blank">Last Word Books</a> & Other Independent Bookstores</span></div>
Last Word Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17001761689718762968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8034333.post-9914382077014076662015-09-04T16:02:00.000-07:002015-09-04T16:02:44.472-07:00Little Free Libraries on the Wrong Side of the Law<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 1em; position: relative; width: calc(100% - 340px);">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Crime, homelessness and crumbling infrastructure are still a problem in almost every part of America, but two cities have recently cracked down on one of the country's biggest problems: small community libraries where residents can share books.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Officials in Los Angeles and Shreveport, La., have told the owners of homemade lending libraries that they're in violation of city codes, and asked them to remove or relocate their small book collections.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">In Los Angeles, Peter Cook, who acts under the name Peter Mackenzie, and his wife, writer Lili Flanders, were told by a city investigator that their curbside library was <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0204-lopez-library-20150204-column.html" style="text-decoration: none;">an obstruction.</a> They were given a week to remove it, or else face fines from the city. This came after an anonymous note from "a neighbor who hates you and your kids" was left on their library, ordering them to "Take it down or the city will."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The couple is declining to remove or relocate the library, with Cook telling the Times that he'll refuse to obey "the blinded Cyclops of L.A. city — wildly swinging its cudgel to destroy something that has made the city and this neighborhood a better place."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">A spokesman for City Councilman Paul Koretz said there's a chance the library could remain if the owners got a permit, which could be paid for by city arts funds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It's a similar situation to the one in Shreveport, where the city sent a <a href="http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2015/02/02/community-rallies-around-little-free-library/22772303/" style="text-decoration: none;">cease and desist letter</a> to the owners of a <a href="http://littlefreelibrary.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Little Free Library</a>. Ricky and Teresa Edgerton were told they could file an appeal to let the library remain, but it would cost $500.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Residents of the Louisiana city were not amused. An artist named Kathryn Usher constructed a makeshift lending library outside her home, and told The (Shreveport) Times, "I did it in solidarity with Ricky. I'm basically telling the [Metropolitan Planning Commission] to go sod off." Another Shreveport resident, Chris Redford, did the same thing, saying, "I just put my books out there to show that I support the Little Free Libraries in every community and what they stand for."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Edgertons might get a reprieve, however: a Shreveport city councilman <a href="http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2015/02/03/shreveport-city-council-take-little-library/22814413/" style="text-decoration: none;">told</a> the newspaper that "a resolution is being drafted to waive existing Little Free Libraries" from zoning laws.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It remains to be seen how both situations will be resolved, and what other cities might join Los Angeles and Shreveport in addressing the growing problem of people sharing books they love with their neighbors.</span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8034333.post-57495616864858672422015-07-07T09:06:00.001-07:002015-07-07T09:06:46.166-07:00Happy Birthday Robert Heinlein!<a href="http://www.theadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Robert-Heinlein-21.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" src="http://www.theadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Robert-Heinlein-21.gif" /></span></span></a><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1907 -- Robert A. Heinlein lives (1907-1988). Prolific American </span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">writer, grand master of science fiction. His first stories </span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">appeared in action-adventure pulp magazine "Astounding Science </span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Fiction" in 1939.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> "There is Lovecraft...[Heinlein, Ayn Rand, Tolkien]... who </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">constantly sing the praises of bourgeois virtues & whose </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">villains are thinly disguised working class agitators — fear </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of the Mob permeates their rural romances.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> To all these & more the working class is a mindless beast </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">which must be controlled or it will savage the world (i.e. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bourgeois security)..."</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> — Michael Moorcock, "Starship Stormtroopers,"</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> an essay on SciFi Fascists,</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/Moorcock.htm" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://recollectionbooks.com/<wbr></wbr>siml/library/Moorcock.htm</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Robert Anson Heinlein</b> (<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none !important;" title="Help:IPA for English">/<span style="border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px;"><span title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/aɪ/ long 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'no'">n</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/aɪ/ long 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'no'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span>;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-1" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hine-line_soc_2-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-hine-line_soc-2" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hine-line_3-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-hine-line-3" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_people" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="American people">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="The Saturday Evening Post">The Saturday Evening Post</a></i> in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades, and he, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> are often considered to be the "Big Three" of science fiction authors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-5" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-6" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">A notable writer of science fiction <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Short story">short stories</a>, Heinlein was one of a group of writers who came to prominence under the editorship of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell,_Jr." style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="John W. Campbell, Jr.">John W. Campbell, Jr.</a> in his <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astounding_Science_Fiction" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Astounding Science Fiction">Astounding Science Fiction</a></i> magazine—though Heinlein denied that Campbell influenced his writing to any great degree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Within the framework of his science fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly addressed certain social themes: the importance of individual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty">liberty</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Individualism">self-reliance</a>, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformist" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Nonconformist">nonconformist</a> thought. He also speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Heinlein was named the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFWA_Grand_Master" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="SFWA Grand Master">Science Fiction Writers Grand Master</a> in 1974.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SFWA_7-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-SFWA-7" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup> He won <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Awards</a> for four of his novels; in addition, fifty years after publication, three of his works were awarded "<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Hugos" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Retro Hugos">Retro Hugos</a>"—awards given retrospectively for works that were published before the Hugo Awards came into existence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SFAwards_8-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-SFAwards-8" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup> In his fiction, Heinlein coined terms that have become part of the English language, including "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Grok">grok</a>" and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Remote manipulator">waldo</a>", and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Speculative fiction">speculative fiction</a>, as well as popularizing the terms like "<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TANSTAAFL" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="TANSTAAFL">TANSTAAFL</a>", "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Pay it forward">pay it forward</a>", and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_marine" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Space marine">space marine</a>. He also described a modern version of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Waterbed">waterbed</a> in his novel <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_Into_Summer" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="The Door Into Summer">The Door Into Summer</a></i>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-9" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup> though he never patented or built one. In the first chapter of the novel "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadet" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Space Cadet">Space Cadet</a>" he anticipated the cell phone, 35 years before the technology was invented by Motorola.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#cite_note-10" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup> Several of Heinlein's works have been adapted for film and television.</span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8034333.post-26854625465624777492015-04-09T12:10:00.000-07:002015-04-09T12:10:00.412-07:00Alain de Botton “Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.” ― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of PhilosophyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8034333.post-64833152215391154232015-04-08T12:04:00.002-07:002015-04-08T12:04:55.453-07:00The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker, Reviewed by Charlie Jack Joseph Kruger<a href="http://www.charliejackjosephkruger.com/"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">www.charliejackjosephkruger.com</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>here is a run of authors that I see as the sorta 'big 4' of modern horror. Stephen King, Peter Straub, Thomas Harris, and Clive Barker. Of these four, Clive Barker has always been the dangerous one. Stephen King, even at his most sickly and cruel never touched the vicious profanity and sacrilege that Barker bathes his writing in. Peter Straub moves with focus and precision, keeping his horrors tight, and in short controlled bursts, ever ascending to the dizzying bacchanal of Barker's flirtations with anthemic depravity. And Thomas Harris, a supreme master of terror and function, makes every move with such baffling conviction and contemplation that his 'Hannibal' trilogy is unrelenting without ever embracing the moist sadosexuality of Barker's best demons. Clive Barker has always aimed for the carnal. With 'Cabal', 'Hellbound Heart', 'Damnation Game' and the varied 'Books of Blood', he wrote from behind a veneer of hyper-sexuality and knuckle-breaking disregard for tact. His characters have been invasive, exploitative, and most of all, cruel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">F</span>or the past few books, Barker has seemingly pulled himself away from the carnal death-dreams of his earlier work, and set himself in both young adult, and mild-fantasy novels. Even the character of Harry D'Amore found himself utilized in stories less guttural and viscous, and more charming and even tongue in cheek. With 'The Scarlet Gospels' both of these modes of storytelling, the profane and the winking self-aware, collide. And they collide well. The classic Barker-esque descriptions and situations paired themselves well with the more mature, more flavored prose and dialogue of his later career.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>et as a sequel to Harry's stories, and to 'The Hellbound Heart', peppered with references and moments to 'Coldheart Canyon', 'The Great and Secret Show' and others, this book seems like a last will and testament. As I read through the intoxicating novel, I felt like I was in a graveyard, watching stories, characters, ideas, fragments of Barker himself, being put to rest. Being given endings, traumatic or serene, that are permanent. The climactic swelling of the novel begins almost as soon as the book is opened, and it is sustained skillfully by Barker.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>t would have been easy for him to extend this story, make this another massive swollen novel of 600-800 pages plumped with tirades, trails, side-stories, and fragments of other books brought into clearer light... but thankfully Barker instead chose brevity. The most horrifying moments of Barker's career have been found in his shorter fiction. The novellas 'Cabal', and 'The Hellbound Heart' and again, the 'Books of Blood' hold his strongest punches. And so almost as if knowing that, Barker doesnt let this book roll on too long. He keeps it focused, concentrated, condensed. He keeps it pure. And that purity is ghastly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>nother massive strength of this novel is the iconic authority of the Hell Priest (the unlovingly named 'Pinhead') and how Barker plays with it. For example, the novel never explicitly states it, or makes it clear between the two covers, wether it is a sequel to 'The Hellbound Heart', the movies 'Hellraiser' or 'Hellbound: Hellraiser 2', or some amalgam of them both. It simply exists in another time, with our spiked demon at the helm once more. And because through 9 films (yeah, there are a lot of debates to be had about that number, and i'll have them, but this isnt the place) and countless pop culture appropriations and effigies the Hell Priest has become a social power all unto himself. As a result, he needs no introduction, no description no details, and no explanation. He is as much an assumed character as Satan himself is. And any reader of Barker's is already familiar with Harry D'Amore, so again, no introduction is needed. Because there is no need for table-setting or preparation, this book is effective in being a full on 360 page climax. A final action set after a 30 year initial incident.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>hile the book's ending is surprisingly neat and tidy, I was left wanting more. Not because the story is incomplete, or that the writing is lacking, but because by the end of the novel, our familiar (and new) faces have become weathered and honed. They become, in effect, new characters. Characters I want to explore more heavily. Characters that Barker should be proud of.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">We see them everywhere. Little Free Libraries that look like miniature barns, chalets, birdhouses, British telephone booths and other fancifully decorated structures.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Inside are all kinds of books -- from romances to car repair -- that people can take without asking permission, checking out or purchasing. They are expected to replace the book with one of their own.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"Our position is that we are a global asset," said Todd Bol, creator of the organization whose motto is, "Take a book, return a book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Bol, 59, is an amiable, talkative guy seated at a big table made of century-old barn wood in the Little Free Library office and workshops near Hudson, Wis., where his 14-person staff works in a one-story building that smells of freshly cut wood. Behind him is a wall of 200 tiles showing Little Libraries of Distinction from all over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">For Bol, who calls himself a social entrepreneur, Little Free Libraries is about more than exchanging books. He wants nothing less than to change society.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"We're bringing neighborhoods together through books, literacy and conversation, talking about common goals," he said. "The (political) right likes us and the left likes us. How do you say 'no' to reading? As a populace, we are upset we are getting pushed apart when we want to come together.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">That's what Little Free Libraries do."</span><div style="font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Bol built what would become the first Little Library in 2009, and the organization officially was established as a Wisconsin nonprofit corporation in May 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Now there are 25,000 registered Little Free Libraries in 50 states and 70 countries. That's why Little Free Library is hosting its first fundraiser Sunday, celebrating its five-year anniversary and launching the Big Little Campaign to raise money to double the program's impact and register 50,000 little libraries.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">The new book "The Little Free Library Book," a 200-page hardcover by author Margret Aldrich, will be previewed at the fundraiser.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Aldrich explained why she wrote the book: "I've been a fan of Little Free Library for a long time. I've seen the magic in my front yard when people drop off a book and chat. The whole block feels friendlier."</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">YARD STEWARDS</span></b></h4>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Bol refers to folks who have Little Free Libraries in their yards as "stewards" and calls himself chief executive and first steward. He doesn't hide his emotions when he recalls a comment made by former Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle when Little Free Library received the Wisconsin Reading Association's Literary Organization of the Year award for 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">The former governor told Bol: "Everything that's going on in the world today, in our government and our communities, that's not who we are. Little Free Library is more representative of what we are as Americans."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Bol, who says he has a form of dyslexia, never dreamed he'd be heading a global nonprofit that focuses on books.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">His Little Library story begins in 2008, when he parted company with his partners in Global Scholarship Alliance, a business he founded that provided nursing scholarships. He was devastated by ending what he had supposed was his life's career.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">After traveling across the country to clear his head at the urging of his wife, Susan, Bol decided to build an office in his garage. He used the 1920s garage door to make a little structure that looked like a schoolhouse to honor his mother, June, a teacher who had died 10 years earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">In fall of 2009, Bol set the schoolhouse outside and filled it with books, but he didn't realize its impact until spring when his family had a garage sale.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"The library was hit," he recalled. "I watched reactions of kids and grown-ups, and I knew we had something meaningful. It magically brought out the sweet side of humanity, the secret primal urge calling us to come together."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Bol teamed with Rick Brooks, at the time the University of Wisconsin-Madison outreach program manager in continuing studies, with a goal of building 2,510 Little Libraries. That was one more than the full-size brick libraries philanthropist Andrew Carnegie built across the country at the turn of the 20th century. Bol and Brooks hit their goal in August 2012, 18 months ahead of schedule.</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">NO MONEY AT FIRST</span></b></h4>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">In the beginning, Bol and Brooks had no money. They built six Little Libraries on Bol's deck, using wood from an old barn. Neither had woodworking skills, so it took awhile. Thanks to a $1,000 grant from the Chicago Awesome Foundation, they were able to build six more, and the media began to pay attention.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">After a story in the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper and a guest appearance on a popular Wisconsin public radio show, requests for Little Libraries came pouring in. (Bol estimates Little Free Library has been written about 11,000 times.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">The New York Times has called Little Free Libraries, or LFL, a global sensation, and the program has been featured on "NBC Nightly News," CNN and National Public Radio as well as appearing in the pages of Parade, Better Homes and Gardens and international fashion magazines. Gwen Briesemeister's documentary "A Small Wooden Box" can be seen on YouTube.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">In 2014 alone, about 36 million free books were exchanged by Little Free Library visitors. In 2014, the nonprofit made $1.5 million, 96 percent of which was earned income of sales of little libraries and registrations by stewards of the libraries. The remaining 4 percent was from donations.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Little Free Library now supports four main programs:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">-- Little Free Libraries for Small Towns brings LFLs to the 11,000 towns in the U.S. without public libraries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">-- Books Around the Block seeded 55 libraries throughout Minneapolis, leading to the establishment of 250 more by organizations, such as schools and Lions and Rotary clubs. The program also donated 60 Little Libraries to Chicago and 20 to Florida.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">-- Friends through the Years is a partnership with the AARP Foundation, which donated $70,000 to encourage intergenerational connections through books, reducing the isolation of older adults.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">-- Good Global Neighbors tries to put books into the hands of people everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Bol is excited about creating Libraries of Understanding for police precincts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"There are 18,000 police departments in the U.S. through which Little Libraries can bring communities together," said Bol, whose grandfather was North St. Paul's police chief. Earlier this month, he presented a mock-up "check" showing 25 Little Libraries he donated to the police chief in Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">These philanthropic initiatives are supported through Little Libraries Give It Forward Team Fund, which gathers donations. Funds also are raised through the sale of 22 different Little Libraries kits, which range from $175 to $350.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"People hear what we are doing, and they offer to help," Bol said, ticking off partnerships with General Mills, car dealer Rudy Luther, Books for Africa, Lutheran Social Services and Coffee House Press among others. National partners include the Library of Congress and First Book, which puts books in the hands of disadvantaged children.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">There have been some glitches as Little Free Libraries sprang up in large and small towns. A few municipal governments said the structures violated zoning laws, but politicians don't want to come out against reading and solutions are found.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">When that happened in Lincoln, Neb., when a Little Library was too close to the street, Bol donated a Little Library to the mayor so the mayor could show how much he loved the program.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">For the "Little Free Library Book," Aldrich interviewed more than 70 Little Library stewards in the U.S. and other countries. Many people are using the Little Libraries for more than book sharing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">For instance, St. Paulite Melanie Peterson-Nafziger has a "lush and tangled garden" on the roof of her library and a community seed exchange in a salvaged drawer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">A recent college graduate in North Carolina used Kickstarter to raise money for a Little Library in Winston-Salem. Across the world in Qatar, a little boy and his father started a Little Library because the boy's friends kept asking to borrow books.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Some inmates at the Prairie du Chien Correctional Institute in Wisconsin build Little Libraries in their building-maintenance and construction class from used, donated or recycled materials.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">With the expansion of his organization, a growing concern for Bol is the churches and organizations selling their own structures as Little Free Libraries to raise money.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"I admit this makes me a little grumpy," he said. "These are well-meaning people, but they don't understand we own the name. It's a mixed blessing when you become a household word like Kleenex."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Bol's latest idea might be his most ambitious. He wants to change the way young people greet one another by introducing the phrase "Whatcha' readin'?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">The idea was born when Bol was having breakfast at Burbank Studios in California with Dave Finkel, producer of the "New Girl" TV show and a Little Library steward.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"We talked about the anti-intellectualism in this country and how nice it would be if we could get kids to put books in the fronts of their minds," Bol recalled. "Their usual conversation is, 'How are you?' 'Fine.' It's meaningless talk. How cool if 'whatcha' readin'?' could be the new 'hello.' "</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">He's already implementing the plan with buttons and stickers that carry the motto. He wants to see the slogan on backpacks, bikes or anywhere young people will see it. And he's hoping to get celebrities to use the phrase.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">For Bol, there is no end to possible directions for Little Free Library.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">For instance, he's in talks with the American Hiking Society to create phone apps to guide people on walking tours of Little Libraries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">His impact may continue to grow, too. Bol was filmed by Voice of America while he was in Washington, D.C., recently for a spot that will run in China.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">As Bol finished a tour recently of Little Free Library headquarters, he tapped a thin wall and said, "We've already expanded this building three times. We just keep growing."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Even as about 36 million books were exchanged last year as part of the Little Free Library program, there never has been a single book about the organization.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"The Little Free Library Book," a 200-page hardcover published by Minneapolis-based Coffee House Press and written by Twin Cities author Margret Aldrich, explains the history and the philosophy of LFL creator Todd Bol, stories of stewards around the world, tips for starting and curating a Little Library, building plans and 350 color photos of the most creative libraries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">The book will be previewed at today's Big Little Party, but the official launch will be at 7 p.m. April 23 at Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Minneapolis. The event is free and open to the public.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Coffee House Press, a literary publisher with a national reputation, is a Little Free Library partner that has donated more than 10,000 of its books to be placed in Little Libraries. When LFL won the National Book Foundation's 2013 Innovations in Reading Prize, Coffee House celebrated by donating another $18,583 worth of books.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Aldrich interviewed more than 70 Little Library stewards in the U.S. and other countries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"Everyone was so enthusiastic. They believe in Little Libraries and the good they are doing" she said. "For every story I put in, there were 10 more I wanted to add."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">As Aldrich worked on the book she tried to figure out what it is about a simple box of books that makes people connect.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Besides building community, putting books in people's everyday paths, and designing and caring for libraries with no rules, Aldrich thinks Little Libraries slow us down in a world that goes so quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">"We've reached an era where Google, Amazon, Netflix calculate exactly what we should be reading and watching," she says. "It's a real pleasure to open a Little Free Library and not know what's going to be inside."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #999999;">In the 1960s, he was a musician and performer, playing boogie-woogie and blues piano, doing comedy, writing songs that included devil-may-care obscenities. "I was a very outspoken person. I won 68 court cases, including a federal court case," he tells the magazine."I've been naked in public now for 55 years," he tells them. He's not interested in joining a nudist movement, however. He explains: "I went to a nudist park once — my whole life I’ve only been to a nudist resort or park once — and decided that is not where I belong. I’d rather be where there’s a variety to people. Once everybody is naked, it’s the same as wearing a uniform. They only talk about why they’re naked, where they go naked, who they’ve met naked, where they’re going next to be naked. I find that quite boring. It’s like going to a tailgate party before a football game — all people talk about is football. Naked is just the way I’m dressed."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #999999;">The Reader's Oasis, stocked with used books and featuring brightly-colored vintage paperbacks, does its briskest business during the winter, when the desert isn't too hot. The store is cash-only.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>et in a hypnotically dystopian world where the insane are leading the blinded into a glorious version of Hell, the novel gets to really get its hands dirty and play around with lust and terror. With everyone able to conjure untold pleasures and fears with nothing more than desire, the world falls apart, and our stalwart hero (a hero which, I am convinced, is also suffering from the same delusions, though they refute that assertion consistently) is left to fight through the nightmarish dream-scapes of the crumbling world to find the doctor at the root of it all. A medicinal gatekeeper, if you will.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">The upstart independent book publisher OR Books, LLC, and the pioneering literary/cultural magazine Evergreen Review, Inc., announced today that they are engaging in a joint venture. Using its unusual direct-to-consumer model, OR Books (<a href="http://www.orbooks.com/" target="_blank">www.orbooks.com</a>) will manage the publishing properties of Evergreen, which include titles by Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, and Kenzaburo Oe.<br /><br />This move consolidates the legacy of the late, legendary founder of Evergreen (and Grove Press), Barney Rosset, at OR Books, which recently signed a contract with Rosset's Estate to publish his long-awaited autobiography. OR Books plans to release <em>The Subject Is Left Handed: The Autobiography of Barney Rosset</em> in winter 2016.<br /><br />OR Books co-publisher John Oakes, whose first job in publishing was at Grove Press as an assistant editor reporting to Rosset in 1987, was also named executive director of Evergreen Review Inc. and publisher of the Evergreen Review by its board.<br /><br />Founded in 1957, Evergreen's mix of high and low culture quickly became indispensable reading to the Beat Generation. At its height, its circulation was close to 200,000, and its writers included an eclectic but always progressive mix of names such as William Burroughs, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm X, Henry Miller, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Jean Genet and Carlos Fuentes. In 1970, barely one year after the Stonewall riots, one of its most famous covers featured a Richard Avedon photograph of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky embracing—nude.<br /><br />According to Oakes, Evergreen is now undergoing a revamping and will "re-emerge" within six months. "The Evergreen mix of progressive politics and edgy cultural exploration fits right in with what we're trying to do at OR," said Oakes. "Barney was in the business of upsetting traditional models, whether they were political, cultural, or social, and so are we. It's an honor to be associated with the Rosset line."<br /><br />"I can think of no better partner than OR," said Astrid Myers Rosset, Rosset's widow and a member of the Evergreen board. "I like to imagine Barney would welcome Evergreen's evolution, and of course its resurrection."<br /><br />OR Books, founded in 2010 by Oakes and Colin Robinson, both longtime veterans of book publishing, made its mark by being one of the first non-specialty publishers to commit to the direct-to-consumer model. It releases its titles simultaneously as both ebooks and paperbacks and, while it does sell to bookstores on a non-returnable basis, does not sell wholesale to Amazon or other suppliers. Among its authors are Julian Assange, Norman Finkelstein, Eileen Myles, Patrick Cockburn, Yoko Ono, Medea Benjamin, Andrew Ross and Douglas Rushkoff.<span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">The two adult victims were found dead inside one unit of the building and about 30 others have been displaced, Oakland fire Battalion Chief Geoff Hunter said. The fire broke out about 3 a.m. at a former armory now divided into live/work units in two separate buildings, stretching from 669 and 671 24th St. to 674 23rd St., between San Pablo Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Hunter said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">As the fire grew to a three-alarm blaze, it quickly spread through the roof, which the buildings share, Hunter said. Fire crews also had trouble accessing the fire, he said. Firefighters had the fire under control at 4:10 a.m.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">The brick building is home to activists and artists and to AK Press and 1984 Printing, which are both located on the first-floor, 23rd Street side of the building. Both companies suffered significant water damage to their book collections and to the businesses. Employees of AK Press and 1984 Printing were busy Saturday morning pushing water out with brooms.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">AK Press describes itself on its website as a worker-run, collectively managed, anarchist publishing and distribution company. According to its website, 1984 Printing offers offset printing and digital copier printing on recycled papers, soy-based and recycled ink and animal-free book binding.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Jose Palafox, 41, who has lived in the building for about six years, said he was awakened by the sound of smoke alarms around 3:50 a.m. His unit was not damaged by the fire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The late Ed Wood has been done a vicious disservice by Tim Burton. Because of the (rightful) scorn of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space', the general low-brow attitude of so much of his work, and the speed with which he pushed ahead, Ed Wood has always been a target for dismissive mockery. Tim Burton's buffoonish film then added an extra level of icing to the cake. By insisting on a narrative of 'HAHA HE IS SUCH A CLOWN', Ed Wood has been left as a point of comedy for college-educated elite film snobs. I have always felt though, that Ed Wood is more than that. Ed Wood was a dreamer. A flawed, and sometimes destructive dreamer, but always and chiefly, a dreamer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As a general fan and defender of low culture, I have found myself pushing the Ed Wood boulder up the hill quite a few times, knowing that when I wake up, I will just have to do it all again. Many of (all, really) Ed Wood's films are horribly flawed. Sloppy writing, hasty changes, low budgets, poor tools... so on and so forth. But there is passion in them (other than the later sleaze porno films, but that is a different talk for a different time!) and there is honesty. Which, really, is more than I can say for Tim Burton. If you wanna make it personal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In this collection, 'Blood Splatters Quickly', a solid collection of Ed Wood's short fiction is bound together. These stories range from pulpy 'women in danger' to sado-sexual screeds all the way around to creepy cautionary tales. And to be frank, I love them all. As a long time reader and lover of pulp mags, dime novels, detective/western/horror/scifi throw-away stories, this collection feels right at home for me. Sure, there are awkward moments, flawed elements, but really, these are honest stories, stories that convey something bigger and more truthful than any 'airplane books' ever strive to. These stories paint a picture of a desperate artist. A creator who just wanted to find the right way to be open. To tell the truth. To be real.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> These arent Fitzgerald stories. They arent perfect. They arent even amazing, really. But they are fun. And more over, they are perfect little brass coated lead pills of honesty and passion from a person who has been shit on and denigrated his whole life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ed Wood was a true outsider. A rebel and a firebrand. And these stories of his show why. They arent the overblown impressions and jokes about him that have become his pop-culture-chosen face... they are the Ed Wood that low culture fans have always known was there. The Ed Wood worth defending. The Ed Wood the hipster literati have tried to wash out of the artistic consciousness of our time. This collection is the Ed Wood we need. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> I was deeply impressed with Critchley's ability to weave Bowie's lyrics into the narrative with apparent ease. Jumping from era to era to illustrate points of change, I feel that Critchley worked out a lot of wrinkles in the fabric of his argument painstakingly.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Scotland: Ode to Generosity - Keats' tome given to art school<br />The edition, from 1898, has been given to the school, which lost much of its collection in a disastrous fire last May, by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association.<br /> The cover design of John Keats - His Poems, gilt-tooled in Glasgow School style, was created by GSA teacher and designer, Ann Macbeth.<br /> The book was formally presented to GSA Librarian, Jennifer Higgins, by the President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, Brian Lake. <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/ode-to-generosity-keats-tome-given-to-art-school.120100030?utm_source=www.heraldscotland.com&utm_medium=RSS%20Feed&utm_campaign=Scottish%20News" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />USA: Aaron-James Booksellers, Plattsworth NE to close<br />For over a decade, Aaron-James Booksellers has provided the Plattsmouth area a wide selection of new and used books.<br /> Now, owner Jim Ball says it's time to close the page on the store, so he can spend more time with family and travel during his retirement years.<br /> The shop was first located in the former Dovey Buildings on Main Street in Plattsmouth. Eight years ago, Ball moved it to 420 Main. He hopes to close the store this spring. <a href="http://fremonttribune.com/cass-news/news/aaron-james-booksellers-to-close/article_6cfcf2cd-9f07-511d-84ff-d06025dde515.html" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /><br /><br /><br />USA: Homeland Security Investigations agents help track down rare stolen book<br />A thief had stolen a rare 16th-century book from Italy. It was Marty Hamlin's job to find it, and help bring it home.<br /> Hamlin, a special agent in Baltimore for Homeland Security Investigations - an arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - took the case in September 2013.<br /> Agents with an HSI office in Rome had been hot on the book's trail when it was sold by an auction house in the Italian capital. Hamlin picked up the trail, and within weeks had the book in his gloved hands.<br /> It turned out the rare books dealer who bought the book at the auction had sold it - to library curators at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-federal-hsi-finds-stolen-artifacts-20150307-story.html#page=1" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /><br /><br /><br />USA: New chapter for lost library of Lenkiewicz<br />After years of legal complications, one of Robert Lenkiewicz's greatest legacies is being opened up to the public as the artist intended. Rachael Dodd discovers the Lenkiewicz Library.<br /> Over a span of 40 years, Robert Lenkiewicz amassed a library of some 25,000 books. Sadly, after his untimely death in 2002, a large part of the collection was auctioned to cover the artist's debts.<a href="http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/New-chapter-lost-library-Lenkiewicz/story-26131367-detail/story.html" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Scotland: Rare books by Blake, Carrol and de Sade emerge from Edinburgh collection for Surrealist display<br />Rare books by William Blake, Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade will go on show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art this spring as part of a new display exploring the roots of the Surrealists.<br /> Surreal Roots: From William Blake to André Breton will combine 18th and 19th century publications, rarely shown to the public, with 20th century books by key surrealist figures such as Salvador Dalí.<a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/literature-and-music/art520570-rare-books-by-blake-carrol-and-de-sade-emerge-from-edinburgh-collection-for-surrealist-display" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /><br /><br /><br />UK: Was 1925 really the best year for literature?<br />It was a very good year. Ernest Hemingway took his first literary steps with the collection of short stories <em>In Our Time</em>; Virginia Woolf published <em>Mrs Dallow</em>ay; and F Scott Fitzgerald brought out <em>The Great Gatsby</em>. All that happened in 1925, as did the publication of Gertrude Stein's <em>The Making of Americans,</em> John Dos Passos's <em>Manhattan Transfer</em>, Theodore Dreiser's <em>An American Tragedy</em> and Sinclair Lewis's <em>Arrowsmith</em>.<br /> BBC Culture, the BBC's international arts website, has designated 1925 as the 'greatest year' in the history of literature, in a piece by author and journalist Jane Ciabattari. But how to determine something like this? This was how she did it: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/mar/11/was-1925-really-the-best-year-for-literature" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /><br /><br /><br />UK: Partnership with Sedbergh Booktown Literacy Trust</span><img alt="" class="CToWUd" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEih9EImSqUczvlBbWobskXF7EVGyI15hhtu1euE54cEGqi1Wb3gus_V5UNzxHZ0T4dDIBcxTd97rjooTBm-Rq1Kds_4rmZdmmEMrPNPNdano_nAQ9CeJQ5R1aYbSjlbdStljtsToq7QZyEP7GN7wHlRPOVb8QLzDi6cN1ojwqoB5iQZ4zjYfjC0EBc9O_cRXw=s0-d-e1-ft" style="float: left;" width="84" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Durham University's Department of English has announced that it has agreed a formal partnership with Sedbergh Booktown Literary Trust. The aim of the partnership is to stimulate new interest in literature and generate new audiences for books, especially in the north of England. The partners will work closely together to organise a series of lively events, including lectures, writing workshops, and readings. Plans are already underway for a programme of events exploring the evolution of English poetry from Beowulf to Brigflatts. <a href="http://www.sheppardsworld.com/SCEditions/SC405/SC405Sedbergh.pdf" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /><br /><br /><br />UK: World Book Day<br />(1) A boy from Manchester was excluded from taking part in World Book Day for dressing as the "Fifty Shades of Grey" character Christian Grey. <a href="http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2015-03-05/boy-excluded-from-world-book-day-for-fifty-shades-of-grey-costume/" target="_blank">Read more</a><br />(2) World Book Day titles claimed nine of the coveted positions in the Top 10 in the most successful WBD week since 2012. A combined total of 339,133 copies of the 10 books published to celebrate the annual charity reading event (held on Thursday 5th March) registered through Nielsen BookScan in the seven days ending 7 March.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Europe: France & Luxembourg ordered to restore VAT on e-books<br />The European Court of Justice has ordered France and Luxembourg to restore their standard VAT rates on e-books in a ruling announced on 5 March. The court upheld a decision previously made by European Commission, which ruled that the two countries cannot charge the same VAT rate on e-books as physical books. Contrary to EC directives, for the last few years Luxembourg has been applying a super-reduced VAT rate of 3% on e-books and France 5.5%. The court has now ruled both countries must restore their normal VAT rates on e-books, which are 17% and 20% respectively. <a href="http://www.thebookseller.com/news/france-and-luxembourg-ordered-restore-e-book-vat" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /><br /><br /><br />UK: Jean Chesters<br />Jean Chesters, partner in the firm of G.& J. Chesters of Polesworth, died on 5 March of cancer. Geoff Chesters, aided by three long-established volunteers, will continue the business via the internet and the nine-roomed bookshop.<br /><br /><br />UK: Bob Date<br />We have learned that Bob Date of Mayland Books died on 9 March.<br /><br /><br />UK: Tristram Hull<br />Nigel Burwood's good friend and colleague, Tristram Hull, died on Sunday 8 March aged 82. He had been ill with cancer for about a year but was always in good spirits. He had a bookshop in Norwich and later ran Simon Gough Books in Holt. A great bookman and will be sadly missed by all his friends and colleagues in the trade.<br /><br /><br />UK: Sir Terry Pratchett<br />Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11467688/Sir-Terry-Pratchett-dies-aged-66.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999;">Don't lament the lost days of cutting your fingers on pristine new novels or catching a whiff of that magical, transportive <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/old-book-smell_n_1415275.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">old book smell</a> just yet! A slew of recent studies shows that print books are still popular, even among millennials. What's more: further research suggests that this trend may save demonstrably successful learning habits from certain death. <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Take comfort in these 9 studies that show that print books have a promising future:</strong></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">While 62 percent of citizens under 30 subscribe to this belief, only 53 percent of those 30 and older agree. These findings are from</span><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/10/millennial-reading-study_n_5799180.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">a promising study released last year by Pew Research</a><span style="color: #999999;">, which also found that millennials are more likely to visit their local library.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: black; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Students are more likely to buy physical textbooks.</strong></div>
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/why-digital-natives-prefer-reading-in-print-yes-you-read-that-right/2015/02/22/8596ca86-b871-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">A study conducted by Student Monitor and featured in The Washington Post</a><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="color: #999999;">shows that 87 percent of textbook spending for the fall 2014 semester was on print books. Of course, this could be due to professors assigning less ebooks. Which is why it's fascinating that...</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: black; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Students opt for physical copies of humanities books, even when digital versions are available for free.</strong></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">While students prefer reading digital texts for science and math classes, they like to study the humanities in print.</span><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><a href="https://www.washington.edu/itconnect/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/UWeTextCampusReport.pdf" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">A study conducted by the University of Washington in 2013</a><span style="color: #999999;">, and quoted in The Washington Post, shows that 25 percent of humanities students bought physical versions of free ebooks.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2014/dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-tech-savvy-teens-remain-fans-of-print-books.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Nielson BookScan numbers</a><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="color: #999999;">from 2014 revealed the main reasons why teens buy books: "I've enjoyed author's previous books" ranked No. 1, followed by "browsing in libraries" and "browsing in bookstores," which both ranked above "online bookseller websites." "In-store displays" also ranked above hearing about a book through a social network.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">A 2012</a><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="color: #999999;">study featured in the Guardian gave half its participants a story on paper, and the other half the same story on screen. The result? iPad readers didn't feel that the story was as immersive, and therefore weren't able to connect with it on an emotional level. Further, those who read on paper were much more capable of placing the story's events in chronological order.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">USA Today shared a 2013 study showing that students retain less when reading on a screen. The study's creator blamed this on the "</span><a href="http://college.usatoday.com/2014/04/17/print-vs-ebooks-it-is-so-e-on/" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">flash gimmicks</a><span style="color: #999999;">" embedded in many ebooks. She also suspects being able to collectively turn to the same page enhances group discussion.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: black; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's not just students opting for print. Parents and kids prefer to read physical books together, too.</strong></div>
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<a href="http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/parents-and-children-prefer-reading-print-books-together-rather-than-e-books-study-finds/" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">According to Digital Book World and literacy nonprofit Sesame Workshop</a><span style="color: #999999;">, less than ten percent of kids and parents alike choose ebooks over print books. Parents say fancy features such as videos and interactive games are more of a distraction than a valued tool.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: black; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Which makes sense, because ebooks can negatively impact your sleep.</strong></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">A few months ago,</span><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/23/ebooks-affect-sleep-alertness-harvard-study" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">the Guardian reported on a Harvard study</a><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="color: #999999;">linking e-reading and sleep deprivation. If the ebook was "light emitting" it took participants an average of ten minutes longer to fall asleep than those who read physical books instead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">In</span><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-s-baron/read-on-screen-learning_b_6681500.html?utm_hp_ref=books" sl-processed="1" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">a blog for The Huffington Post</a><span style="color: #999999;">, Naomi S. Baron wrote about the findings published in her new book,</span><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><em style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World</em><span style="color: #999999;">. "Studies I have done with university students in several countries confirm what I bet you'll find yourself observing," she writes. "When reading either for (school) work or pleasure, the preponderance of students found it easiest to concentrate when reading in print. They also reported multitasking almost three times as much when reading onscreen as when reading in hard copy."</span></div>
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<li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #999999;"><strong style="background-color: black;">'Man on a hill' - 54 per cent of books - is a positive story with mid-way peak</strong></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published"><span class="article-timestamp-label" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">PUBLISHED:</span> 03:52 EST, 26 February 2015 </span>| <span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"><span class="article-timestamp-label" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">UPDATED:</span> 09:48 EST, 26 February 2015</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> With some 130 million books in existence, it's hard to fathom how the literary sphere's wealth of storylines could be boiled down into just six different categories.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> But a professor is now claiming that there are only half a dozen possible plots which any novel can follow. Matthew Jockers, from the University of Nebraska, has used a high-tech computer system to analyse more than 40,000 novels in a bid to find out the pattern behind storylines. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Man in a hole: A professor has claimed that there are just six possible plots for novels - and that Moby Dick (left) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (right) fall into the 'man in a hole' category </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> This graphic shows how the James Joyce novel follows a broad journey in which it starts on a positive note, plunges, and then re-emerges with positivity: a concept 46 per cent of novels follow, research shows</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Instead of focusing on the narrative, the program, called Syuzhet, automatically studies the emotional journey on which novels take their readers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Mr Jockers found the emotional pattern used in novels can be broken down into just two categories, both of which are then divided into three sub-groups.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> He has labelled the two basic forms as 'man on a hill' - a mainly positive story in which there is a mid-way peak - and 'man in a hole', which tends to follow a character as they get into trouble and crawl back out again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> According to Mr Jockers, 46 per cent of novels are made up of 'man in the hole'-style storylines, the most prominent of which is A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Matthew Jockers analysed 40,000 novels through a computer system and found that novels follow these two broad emotional concepts - 'man in a hole' and 'man on a hill'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Moby Dick by Herman Melville was also put into the same category, while the analysis shows Loves Music, Loves to Dance, by Mary Higgins Clarks, follows a similar format. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Intensity by Dean Koontz and A Creed in Stone Creek, by Linda Lael Miller, were two examples of the 'man on a hill' format. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> The remaining four types come from variations of those two broader categories, Mr Jockers claims.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> A Creed in Stone Creek, by Linda Lael Miller, is another variant of the 'man on a hill' story </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Mr Jockers decided to create the program after attending a lecture by Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughter-house Five.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">Mr Vonnegut said there was no reasons why the 'simple shape of stories' could not be fed into computers. It was Mr Vonnegut who initially coined the phrases 'man in a hole' and 'man on a hill'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> Experts have long been trying to analyse how novels are formed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> In 2004, Christopher Booker published The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> He suggested there were seven types of tales: rags to riches; overcoming the monster; the quest; voyage and return; comedy; tragedy, and rebirth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> In the 18th Century, Italian playwright Carlos Gozzi said there were 36 dramatic situations, which included the revolt; the enigma; madness; involuntary crimes of love; self sacrifice, and ambition.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> In the misty hills of modern american literature there is a small and secret place just beyond 'thrillers', close to 'crime dramas', right before the dreaded 'airplane book' fields, fattened and kept alive by a steady flow and love of pulp detective novels. In that small place the authors are well-read, versed in Faulkner and Hemingway, but still devoted disciples of gritty detective fiction and dime-novels packed with twists, mysterious women, and dastardly men. Literate noir. Greg Iles' 'The Bone Tree' lives in this small hidden area.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> While steeped in Louisianian Gothic excess and depravity, the book's very honest story shines through. Peppered with violence (there is a lot of sexualized cruelty at play here) and bolstered with interesting switches in narrative form (from first person views in one character's chapters, to more traditional removed views in certain others, flashbacks, jumping time frames, so on and so forth...) Iles' novel is enchanting and at times even beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> A corrupt police force, decades old Civil Rights-era murders, assassination conspiracies, secret KKK cabals, fierce and devoted reporters, back-room deals with the viciously rich, crime families, rouge FBI agents, and bloody revenge... somehow the book keeps from veering too far into insanity, and maintains a dour reality. In this way, Elmore Leonard came to mind. That sorta broken law-man with an old pistol full of truth, justice, and shame flickered in my mind as I read the character of Mayor Penn Cage. The snarling Knox family, with their KKK ties and country/bayou meets mafia leanings brought to mind the Crowder clan from Elmore Leonard's 'Raylan', as well as the old forgotten gem 'At Close Range' (a film starring both Christopher Walken and Sean Penn) with the same vicious reality that both those works stress.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> I was genuinely uncomfortable with some of the racial tones in the book, but I feel like that was necessary. To understand the hate, the pure unadulterated hate, that Snake and Forrest Knox lived within, the crass betrayal and awful inhumanity of Ozan, or the terror and resentment in Tom Cage, we needed to be made uncomfortable. We needed to hear about the gargantuan human rights atrocities committed by the KKK offshoot group, 'The Double Eagles', and more importantly, we had to be disgusted.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> At just a hair over 800 pages, this book brings a lot of baggage. It never overstays its welcome, to be fair, but the size of the story (especially keeping in mind that this is only book to of a three part arc) is impressive in its vastness. My favorite character from the first is absent from this story, and with him one of the more interesting subplots. Still though, the book supplies faces and voices from the first book, and even fills out the space a bit with a few new hitters and fighters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> It should also be noted that within the first 30-40 pages of the book, many of the first book's defining moments are detailed and explained in a way that not only doesn'</span><span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">t feel hackneyed or forced, but actually feels natural and logical. So while it isn't actually mandatory that you read the first book, it DOES give more thorough illumination to the story and the characters at play.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"> This is an interesting read, and easily one of the more impressive new novels from a place like Harper Collins I have read in a while.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;"><i>The Bone Tree will be released in Hardcover on April 21st, 2015. You may pre-order a copy at Last Word Books, or your friendly neighborhood independent bookseller.</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="lr_dct_nyms_ttl" style="font-style: italic; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">synonyms:</td><td style="padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+worthless&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CB8Q_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">worthless</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+valueless&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCAQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">valueless</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+cheap&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCEQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">cheap</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+tawdry&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCIQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">tawdry</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+trashy&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCMQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">trashy</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+Brummagem&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCQQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Brummagem</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+tasteless&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCUQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">tasteless</a>,<a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+kitsch&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCYQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">kitsch</a>, kitschy; <span data-log-string="synonyms-more-click" jsaction="dob.m"><span class="lr_dct_more_btn" style="color: #1122cc; cursor: pointer; padding-left: 4px;">More</span><div style="display: inline;">
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<a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+false&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCgQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+artificial&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCkQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+fake&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCoQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1152&bih=566&q=define+imitation&sa=X&ei=FBj5VNWpBYfqoATQ1oGIAQ&ved=0CCsQ_SowAA" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"></a></div>
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of, relating to, or characteristic of a prostitute.</div>
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