In response to last year's enlarged smoking ban in the UK, London's Tank Books produced a series of literary classics packaged in cigarette boxes. Titles by Conrad, Kipling, and Kafka are among the works available to nicotine-deprived readers. They call the books "Tales to Take Your Breath Away."Now from The Guardian comes word that British … Continue reading Call the Surgeon General
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From Around Here
I somehow missed the fact that Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us, is from St Louis Park. Leave it to MinnPost to keep me informed. Weisman talked to the Post about writing, touring, and how growing up with creosote in the drinking water made him an environmentalist.--David E
Sound and Fury
I've already blogged about Andrew Morton's publicity stunts promoting his latest celebrity tell-all Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography (read it here) and the web is alight with word of suits and paternity rumors. The book itself is finally out, but slate.com saves you the trouble of actually reading it with their extracts of the juiciest … Continue reading Sound and Fury
Musings from Magers and Quinn 