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Poetry: Best Books, 2010
it is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there – William Carlos Williams And, yeah, it’s still hard to get the news from poetry–so MANY...
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Best Reads, 2010 (Music and Memoir)
These are the best books Bat Terrier read this year. (Disclosure: no books by friends on this list.) Popular Music Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, Mark Polizotti Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson...
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Best Reads, 2010 (Translation, Anthology, Poetry, etc.)
These are the best books Bat Terrier read this year. (Disclosure: no books by friends on this list.) Translation The Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud, as translated by Donald Revell Anthologies Flash...
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Of Interest: The Novel is Undead and Best Books About Books
Change or die: Canadian author Derek Beaulieu says the novel is either dying or on its way to reinvention. (Meanwhile, in 2008, the last year for which data is available, publishers in the United...
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Of Interest: Every 2010 Best Poetry Book List You Can Imagine
Wanna know not only the Best Poetry Books of 2010, but also Best First Book, Best Second Book, Best Selected/Collected, Best Translation, Best First Poem in a Collection, Best Final Poem in a...
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Chekhov’s Letters and Stories–Free
Anton Chekhov‘s letters, translated and with an introduction by Constance Barnett, are available here in HTML format. For free. You can also read more than 200 of Chekhov’s stories here. Again, for...
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Open Culture’s (Excellent) List of Best Non-Fiction Ever
Bat Terrier applauds Open Culture‘s smart list of essential non-fiction. (Click here for the list.) Have you ever seen Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, undoubtedly one of the best books ever written, on...
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A New Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann is directing a new film version of Scott Fitzgerald‘s “perfect” novel, The Great Gatsby. The film will be released next summer and stars Leonardo Di Caprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as...
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Best Books Read in 2011 (Zombies, Assassination, The Low Life, Stories,...
Best Zombie Book Dead Sea, Brian Keene. Even the sharks are zombies. Word. Saddest Murder Mystery Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr and the International Hunt for His...
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Quick Notices: Auden’s _Poets of the English Language_
Poets of the English Language by W.H. Auden My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve read this collection through several times and find it entirely useful. Auden’s prefaces to each volume, providing historical,...
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