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  • Over at The Guardian, Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game, Joseph Boyden’s Through Black Spruce, and Alice Munro’s short-story collection Carried Away, were mentioned as some of the best books of 2008.
  • Publishing big-wigs have had to cut their lavish lunches — but their wardrobe expenses won’t be next. At least, not according to this video at New York magazine of publisher Christian Van Gastel and his designer gear
  • Firefox users can install the Tumbarumba extension to their browsers, and wait for story text to gradually surface while browsing. While some may call this “reading,” others  call it “procrastinating” or “wasting time”

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December 2nd, 2008

1:22 pm

Category: Book links

Tagged with: Alice Munro, design