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NETWORK author David Eagleman, author of Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives, answers “Stray Questions” for the New York Times Book Blog “Paper Cuts:” http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/stray-questions-for-david-eagleman/#more-4343
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Posted by Naomi Firestone
Naomi at the Jewish Publication Society just started a new series on the JPS Blog, where she asks JPS authors to recommend a list of ten books related to the subject matter they’ve written about themselves. She posted her first entry today, which featured Maggie Anton. To view Maggie Anton’s top 10 books about Jewish women, please visit: http://jpsblog.org/2009/07/maggie-antons-top-10-books-about-jewish-women/
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Posted by Naomi Firestone
Words Without Borders’ translation of Eduardo Halfon’s “The Polish Boxer”–translated from the Spanish by Ezra Fitz:
69752. That it was his phone number. That it was tattooed there, on his left forearm, so he wouldn’t forget it. That’s what my grandfather told me. And that’s what I grew up believing. In the seventies, the country’s phone numbers were all five digits.
To continue reading, please visit: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=HalfonPolishBoxer
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Jess Horwitz over at Kar-Ben Publishing (@KarBenPub on Twitter) just shared a great video with me from author Scott Muskin, who just published the title The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama’s Boy and Scholar. It’s an instructional video for Magers & Quinn Booksellers, an independent bookstore in Minneapolis. If you’ve ever found yourself confused about how to find a particular book at Magers & Quinn, enjoy: http://blog.magersandquinn.com/2009/07/confused-about-how-to-find-particular.html
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