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Fun with Word Frequency, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
May 8, 2013
On the Shelf
See
how many times
a word or phrase is used in a book! Hours of … okay, maybe not
fun
, but hours.
New research suggests that there exists a family of “
ultraconserved words
”—including
ashes
,
man
,
worm
, and
not
—that have survived, virtually unchanged, for fifteen thousand years.
Amanda Knox
tells the
Times
what she reads. Among others: Marilynne Robinson, Vladimir Nabokov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jonathan Safran Foer, and David Foster Wallace.
The Harper Lee copyright fracas inspires
a list of literary lawsuits
.
“I’ve been getting death threats.”
Charlaine Harris
on the end of Sookie Stackhouse.
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