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  • Portlanders, start your smug engines: you live in the top city in America for readers<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • James Joyce in Trieste<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Turkey has quietly lifted a ban<\/a> on some 23,000 books.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cThe Lethem<\/a> printer resides in the college\u2019s library, Crossett, where it is used by students to print papers and assignments. Prior to Lethem, the college printers were called Rumi and Thoreau for no discernable reason, as neither went there.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Portlanders, start your smug engines: you live in the top city in America for readers. James Joyce in Trieste. Turkey has quietly lifted a ban on some 23,000 books. \u201cThe Lethem printer resides in the college\u2019s library, Crossett, where it is used by students to print papers and assignments. Prior to Lethem, the college printers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[947,1351,149,20543,3861,7723,9711,1417],"class_list":["post-44500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-james-joyce","tag-jonathan-lethem","tag-news","tag-on-the-shelf","tag-portland","tag-roundup","tag-trieste","tag-turkey"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA Printer Called Lethem, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 9, 2013 \u2013 Portlanders, start your smug engines: you live in the top city in America for readers. James Joyce in Trieste. 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