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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.

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The Art of Virtue by Benjamin Franklin

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Never Let Me Go: What happens when novelist and screenwriter are friends

From The Afterword Reading Society Nine months before it was published, Alex Garland read the manuscript of Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, Never Let Me Go. It took him less than a day to finish, and later that evening called up … Continue reading

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Infinite Sadness.

A new novel by the late David Foster Wallace, set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois, will be published April 15, Tax Day. Titled “The Pale King” , the book was was unfinished when the author committed suicide … Continue reading

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MURDER MANOR.

It’s Agatha Christies’ 120th Birthday, so here is her scary house.

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Freedom By Jonathan Franzen Buy Indie

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Never Let Me Go To Boarding School.

Ah, the English boarding school of fiction! Happy schoolgirls scrambling over undulating green hills and hedgerows to classrooms in former manors or castles. Twins, unruly tomboys, sheltered small town bumpkins, spoilt brats, mysterious foreign exchange girls, sexually ambiguous jocks who … Continue reading

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Don’t Read. Just Destroy.

WANNA BURN A BOOK? “Book burning is antithetical to American ideals”. – Sarah Palin, via her Facebook page.

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My Hollywood by Mona Simpson

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Two Little Girls on the Prairie.

I read “Confessions of A Prairie Bitch“ in one sitting, because it is that kind of book. “Prairie Life”, which I read earlier this year, is that kind of book, too. If you were a girl growing up in the … Continue reading

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