Next week at the Library…
Some reading material from around the internet:
The history of the word “Dude.”
Gallagher suffers a heart attack, retires from performing.
The battle over a missing Monet.
Fashion Week in China.
Robot Monkey kickstarter.
Burker King’s new menu looks very familiar.
The world’s tallest treehouse.
The #Occupy movement is getting a lot less visible.
by Rebecca Cobb, from here.
A list of literary heroines.
10 famous authors who made unlikely genre jumps.
Ideas to save libraries.
A new reader and an old reader discuss the books behind Game Of Thrones.
Iain M. Banks on his writing process.
When Ernest Hemingway killed his cat.
Charlie Kaufman is writing his first novel.
Are book covers different for male authors and female authors?
from here.
Everything the Hunger Games movie left out.
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs?
Kenneth Branagh will possibly be directing the next Jack Ryan movie.
I, Claudius is finally out on DVD.
The trailer for Safety Not Guaranteed, the movie based on an internet meme.
What’s really happening when Mad Men characters sing.
The trailer for The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO show.
How much would a black hole hurt the Earth?
The 1940s Census records have been released.
The benefits of being bilingual.
Pink Slime economics.
Bruce Sterling on the New Aesthetic.
Would you implant a microchip in a child?
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