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Books on the Floor, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
June 13, 2013
On the Shelf
Pamela Paulsrud,
Bibliophilism
, 2006.
Flooring
. Made of books.
“New Canadian research finds reading
a literary short story
increases one’s comfort with ambiguity.” ’Nuff said, really.
Finland’s passport doubles as an excellent
moose-themed flipbook
, as it should.
Notes on “politeness formulae.”
Or,
why we inexplicably sign e-mails with unwarranted thanks.
Speaking of linguistics: the derivation of the term
paperback
.
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