All Male Cats Are Named Tom: Or, the Uneasy Symbiosis between T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx is by Ed Simon, Editor-at-Large for The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of The Los Angeles Review of Books. It appears in JSTOR Daily. T. S. Eliot and Groucho MarxGetty...
ATG Quirkies: How Public Libraries Are Seeding America’s Gardens
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ATG Quirkies: The Bug in the Computer Bug Story
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ATG Quirkies: ‘Everywhere I stop bookshops are thriving’: novelist Jon McGregor tours his latest book by bike’
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ATG Quirkies: How Word Puzzles Tickle the Brain and Satisfy the Soul
How Word Puzzles Tickle the Brain and Satisfy the Soul - A.J. Jacobs on the Joy of Playing With Words appears on Literary Hub. "Many things keep me awake at night. I worry about my kids’ future. I worry about rising sea levels and declining democracies. But if I’m...
ATG Quirkies: A Scientific Explanation for Your Urge to Sniff Old Books
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ATG Quirkies: The smallest library in Maine is on a mission to bring banned books to its community
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ATG Quirky: What Classic Mystery Author You Should Read, Based On Your Zodiac Sign
What Classic Mystery Author You Should Read, Based On Your Zodiac Sign is by Daisy Bateman who is the author of the Marketplace Mysteries series. It appears on the CrimeReads website. "The mystery genre has a long and varied history, going back close to two centuries...
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WVU Libraries joins MIT Press Open Access Publishing Initiative Library Technology Guides notes that "MIT Press announced the launch of its Direct-to-Open framework. In this model, rather than purchasing licenses to eBook titles individually or through packages,...
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