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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
(Pantheon)
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From the Critical Mass blog
Save the Date: NBCC at Lit Crawl New York, September 11, 6 pm
Lit Quake's NYC Lit Crawl Presents: National Book Critics Revise and Recant
Start:
September 11, 2010 6:00
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Save the Date: NBCC at Brooklyn Book Festival, September 12, 5 pm.
Brooklyn Book Festival, September 12, 2010
5:00, MAINSTAGE, Brooklyn Borough Hall.
NBCC “Name that Author” returns to the book festival with
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Still Thinking About New Orleans
On this fifth anniversary of the beginning of the devastation that we now simply call Katrina, I'm posting links to Thinking About New Orleans, the
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Small Press Spotlight: Aaron Michael Morales
PHOTO CREDIT: RACHEL WEDDING McCLELLAND
Drowning Tucson, Coffee House Press, 2010.
Aaron Michael Morales grew up in Tucson and now teaches
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