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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Atwood’s LongPen

This came from alum listserve; don’t know source and no, don’t have time to look it up — that’ll go on my to-do list.
“Author’s invention reaches fans by remote control”

Margaret Atwood has had enough of long journeys, late nights and writer’s cramp.
Tired of grueling book tours, the Booker Prize-winning Canadian author on [...]

AlterNet: Internet Freedoms Come of Age

AlterNet: Internet Freedoms Come of Age
As government entities around the world discuss what limits to put on the internet, it’s time to call freedom of information what it is — a basic human right.

Book Notices, Der Struwwelpeter, GetHuman

Bob Staake has redone/adapted the classic Der Struwwelpeter. (A cult-classic book of morality tales, written by Heinrich Hoffman over 160 years ago, originally for his own child.)
Robert Birnbaum e-mailing: on a regular basis I hope to ameliorate, in an admittedly small way, the deplorable lack of attention and failure of imagination to a broad array [...]