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Martin Amis Owes Everything to His “Wicked Stepmother,” and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
January 6, 2014
On the Shelf
Photography: Maximilian Schönherr, via Wikimedia Commons.
Martin Amis
pays elegant tribute to his deceased stepmother
, who saved him from an early life as “a semi-literate truant.”
Chang-rae Lee’s forthcoming
On Such a Full Sea
boasts
the world’s first 3D-printed book cover
.
How to modernize literary classics
(even when cell phones and the Internet bring an infestation of plot holes).
Can great literature really change your life
? (Quick answer: probably not, but maybe.)
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