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Jeni Oppenheimer interviews Tori Hogan, author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Journey Into the Realities of International Aid.
As a teenager, I used to frequently walk to the public library in the much wealthier neighboring town, where I loved to browse and with my county-wide library card could even take books out.
This monthly feature by Patricia Bochi invites readers to (re)discover a work that’s so rich and delightful it calls for slow reading to appreciate it fully.
Here at the Independent, the year is off to a strong start. In January we posted reviews of 28 books, as well as 15 other literary features including author Q&As, blog posts, and of course the launch of An Independent Voice.
Carrie Callaghan interviews Paul Dickson, author of the fascinating Words from the White House.
How problematic is the application of Big Data methods to literature? That is: is there a problem in taking huge swaths of literature and subjecting them to data mining techniques?
Shelf Awareness reports that Barnes & Noble may close up to 20% of its retail stores over the next decade. It’s worth it, if you have the time and have access, to dig into the longer Wall Street Journal piece on which the report is based.
About a year ago I found myself at the Tucson Festival of Books and came across an old copy of Stephen King’s Bachman Books, which I promptly purchased. I’d lost my copy years before, and hadn’t seen these four novellas packaged together for a long while.
