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Serving poetry with your pumpkin pie

Nov 24, 2009
Many of our Thanksgiving traditions are slightly twisted versions of what really happened. There wasn't any turkey served; the first one was probably in Texas, not Massachusetts; Pilgrims didn't dress in black or wear tall hats. But if our myths aren't...

Alice, Beatrix and Harry: Valuable children's literature collection up for auction

Nov 24, 2009
A valuable collection of children's literature, including Alice's own copy of "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There," a first edition of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Beatrix Potter's personal copy of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" will...

Pop-up books in the news

Nov 23, 2009
The man behind the modern pop-up book, Waldo "Wally" Hunt, has died. Hunt, a Los Angeles advertising executive, sold his company and traveled to New York, where he became disenchanted. He was charmed by a pop-up book imported from Czechoslovakia. "I...

Who's confused by Palin parody?

Nov 23, 2009
When we wrote that OR Books, publishers of the Sarah Palin parody "Going Rouge," might be hoping to confuse buyers looking for "Going Rogue" with their evil-twin cover and typo-switcheroo title, we didn't imagine that the media would be caught up in...

Reading Heidi and Spencer's book so you don't have to

Nov 23, 2009
If there's a guaranteed white elephant gift this holiday season, it's the 132-page book "How to be Famous" by Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. These two -- who leveraged their roles on MTV's semi-real reality show "The Hills" into tabloid dominance --...


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