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  • \u201cOver the years, I\u2019d purchased books on Indian philosophy, Nepali architecture, alpine flowers, Hatha yoga, spirit possession, as well as old copies of The Paris Review<\/em>, and I frequented the store long enough to see my own collection of short stories appear in the section for Nepali authors.\u201d Kathmandu\u2019s Pilgrims Book House<\/a> rebounds, slowly, from a devastating fire.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  • The Generative Gatsby<\/em><\/a> lays out the text of Fitzgerald\u2019s novel like music scores, designed along the lines of twenties-era jazz.<\/li>\n
  • Scholastic Book Club is dead; long live Scholastic Reading Club<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  • \u201cThe phrase is alluring, stirring, and indistinctly evocative. It is also, strictly speaking, incomprehensible, and for all the time the phrase has been relished, readers and scholars have debated what the term actually means.\u201d What, exactly, did Homer mean by \u201cwine-dark sea<\/a>\u201d … if that\u2019s even what he said?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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