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Public Library 1.02

By TF | Published: February 1, 2010
Naomi Klein on how corporate branding has taken over America. Extract from the 10th Anniversary Edition of No Logo examining the branding of everything American – including Barack Obama. Great read. Via The Guardian. Our Boredom, Ourselves. Jennifer Schuesller on how boredom is woven into the very fabric of the literary enterprise. Via The New [...]
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Public Library 11.12

By TF | Published: December 11, 2009
James Wood’s best books of 2009. Via The New Yorker. Cate Kennedy on how to end a short story. Via ABC. All That, an extract from The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Also via The New Yorker. Simon Winchester on Georges Perec. Via OUP blog. Amazon to sell short stories for the Kindle. I [...]
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Public Library 20.11

By TF | Published: November 20, 2009
Kabul: City Number One – Part 5 – Intercontinental. Part five of Adam Curtis’s series on Afghanistan expands on the (failed) westernisation of Afghanistan. The Robert Louis Stevenson Website. Includes all RLS’s written works. Michael Wood on Roland Barthes. A retrospective look at the French literary theorist/philospher/semiotician in the context of two new releases by him. [...]
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Public Library 13.11

By TF | Published: November 13, 2009
Borges on the Couch by David Foster Wallace. One of my favourite authors reviews the biography of my other favourite author – and nails it. From the NY Times. In Retreat. Malcolm Knox on the future of gentlemen’s clubs, from The Monthly. ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’. Umberto Eco interviewed in [...]
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Public Library 24.9

By TF | Published: September 24, 2009
The Holy Grail of the Unconscious - on Carl Jung’s soon to be released Red Book. Writing with style by Kurt Vonnegut. Introducing a new Australian literary journal, dotdotdash magazine. Looks good – and they have a blog. Economics is not a natural science and why.
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Public Library 21.7

By TF | Published: July 21, 2009
David Marr on the Productivity Commision’s jumble of garble/book report. A Country Doctor, short story by Franz Kafka. The LA Times’ 61 essential postmodern reads. Ebooks deleted from Kindles in the night. World Digital Library.
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