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We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.

The Koch Brothers’ Vision for America will Destroy Everything you Love Including your Public Library

Libraries. A place where people too poor to afford Internet access at home can access information and communities that will help them participate in the political process. Or as conservatives call them: Lie-berries: a direct danger to the our dystopian … Continue reading

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Savage Harvest A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art By Carl Hoffman William Morrow & Company, Hardcover, 9780062116154, 322pp.

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Ramona Quimby, C’est Moi.

  Beverly Cleary, who turned 100 last week, has written more than three dozen children’s books over the course of her life, starting with her first book, “Henry Huggins”, in 1950. Cleary was working as a librarian when a group of little … Continue reading

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A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara Doubleday Books, Hardcover, 9780385539258, 736pp. Publication Date: March 10, 2015

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John Stanley

John Stanley was born in Harlem, NYC on this date in 1914., so happy birthday, John Stanley. Stanley is one of my all-time favorite comics writers,  the most consistently funny, the most consistently idiosyncratic, and the most handsome writer to ever … Continue reading

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Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson By Gregory Bateson; Mary Catherine Bateson (Foreword by) University of Chicago Press, Paperback, 9780226039053, 533pp. Publication Date: April 15, 2000  

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The Girl with No Past By Kathryn Croft Bookouture, Paperback, 9781910751244, 302pp. Publication Date: October 2, 2015

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