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Happy Birthday, Gatsby; Good-bye, Britannica
By
Sadie Stein
April 11, 2012
On the Shelf
The eighth installment of
Kramers Ergot
moves toward (cerebral) genre.
Rule Britannia:
An appreciation
of the legendary eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
This
Rizzoli boutique
is far more lovely than one would expect a department-store bookstore to be.
What are the most frequently shoplifted books
? Crowdsourcing the answer!
Guess who “enjoys working with Amazon”?
Robert Gottlieb
, that’s who.
On the “Dark Lady of American Letters”:
Margaret Fuller
was a divisive figure due to “the effect of her manners, which expressed an overweening sense of power, and slight esteem of others … The men thought she carried too many guns, and the women did not like one who despised them.”
Bookish weddings.
Happy belated birthday,
Great Gatsby
.
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