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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

  • \u201cI am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people.\u201d Ray Bradbury answers a fan letter, 1974.<\/a><\/span> <\/li>\n
  • Natasha Trethewey <\/a>is named Poet Laureate. <\/li>\n
  • Telling tales on the mid-century New Yorker<\/em>. Just who was Janet Groth\u2019s thinly disguised cad<\/a>, the Great Deceiver?<\/li>\n
  • Protesting New York City library cuts.<\/a> <\/li>\n
  • An Emily Dickinson garden party<\/a> in Amherst. <\/li>\n
  • Controversial words<\/a> in China and the USA.<\/li>\n
  • The android head of Philip K. Dick<\/a> is terrifying. <\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cI am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people.\u201d Ray Bradbury answers a fan letter, 1974. Natasha Trethewey is named Poet Laureate. Telling tales on the mid-century New Yorker. Just who was Janet Groth\u2019s thinly disguised cad, the Great Deceiver? Protesting New York City library cuts. An Emily Dickinson garden party in Amherst. 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