Author Archives: kara

About kara

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.

On the Nightstand

Posted on June 24, 2012 by kara

  Half a Life, A Memoir by Darin Strauss Publication Date: May 31, 2011

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Crappy Economy Prompts a new kind of Liberal Book.

Posted on May 29, 2012 by kara

A wave of liberal authored books are hitting the proverbial bookshelves this year lamenting the slow economy, calling for substantive change, and offering little in the way of cover design. The new crop of books reflect the left’s mood swings in … Continue reading →

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Bad to the Bone: The Worst Children in Literature

Posted on May 24, 2012 by kara

by Scott Laming via abebooks Children can be innocent, inquisitive and the embodiment of hope.   But those characteristics make for boring stories.  Sometimes authors enjoy creating a fictional child that is just plain nasty. Draco Malfoy might be a bigot … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 4, 2012 by kara

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. Robert Herrick. 1591–1674 To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 15, 2012 by kara

Here is a magazine called The Conservative Teen, if nothing else, a very good example of why you should never sign up for a photostock shoot: http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?lang=en&…

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Amazon’s $1 Million Secret

Posted on April 11, 2012 by kara

from Salon: By quietly supporting small presses and literary nonprofits, is Amazon backing book culture or buying off critics?

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Republicans: Stop Using Words.

Posted on April 6, 2012 by kara

Has anyone noticed the over/mis use of the word “Orwellian” recently? And by Right Wingers, who you know for a fact have never read anything by Orwell? Add “Orwellian” to the list of simple terms used to describe government, politics … Continue reading →

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On the Nightstand

Posted on March 30, 2012 by kara

Money, A Suicide Note by Martin Amis Penguin Ink, publication date: 1984

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Librería San Ginés and El Renacimiento books

Posted on March 7, 2012 by kara

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Posted on February 19, 2012 by kara

Jacques Derrida’s home library, Ris Orange, France

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