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Don’t forget: Free Book Friday is today, May 22 12:30, TriBeCa park. CC to Bob Dylan? Oh yes.
Read MoreTribeca Park is the place. Free ARCs abound. 12:30, Friday, May 22. Meet us in the park for a sampling of free Advanced Reader Copies. We'll have a few different books, among them The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan.
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Quite a few years ago, when I was young, slim, and could easily lift boxes, I worked for the Classics Bookshop chain, in their Don Mills Centre location in Toronto. It was a busy, happening place. Over the years, it evolved with the community – it was enclosed in the late seventies, retailers opened, closed, and moved on (Classics included). On April 22, 2009 the plaza, renamed the Shops at Don Mills opened, and amongst the familiar Eastern Canada retail names is a new one from the west: McNally Robinson Booksellers.
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Great-great granddaughter of Charles Darwin Ruth Padel has been named Professor of Poetry at Oxford. She is the first woman to hold the post in its 301-year history. UPDATE: It seems that she has stepped down, here’s the first news story I encountered. Thanks to commenter Varol for the heads-up.
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A controversial giant statue of a white horse by sculptor Max Wallinger will soon be erected at the Ebbsfleet station in southern England, the UK’s new gateway to continental Europe for Eurostar high-speed trains. Pita Kelekna tells us why this symbol is especially appropriate.
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I have met former jihadis and Islamists in many countries who tell me that al-Qaida's gruesome attacks on civilians, particularly in Muslim countries - and the mayhem these wrought - have relegated al-Qaida to the margins of Islamic society, with few allies and insecure sanctuaries.
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America Reads applies the Page 99 Test to Christopher Magra’s The Fisherman’s Cause, an exploration of the relationship between commercial fishing and the American Revolution.
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Metapsychology Online Reviews just posted an interesting review of Boonin’s The Problem of Punishment.
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