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The Curated BookshelfYesterday: NEW YORK MAGAZINE :Independent bookstores are the sober equivalent of your local bar: Not only does everyone know your name, they know what you like... READ MORE
VS Naipaul offered juju revengeYesterday: TIMESONLINE :THE Nobel prize-winning author VS Naipaul was recently offered the chance by an African witch doctor to put a curse on his biographers, according to his wife, Nadira... READ MORE
A Year in Reading 2008December 3: THE MILLIONS :The distractions of a good book have been in high demand this year. A quiet corner and a transporting story offered a reprieve from relentless campaign news not to mention cheap entertainment for the many feeling a sudden impulse for thriftiness... READ MORE
Whatever happened to the Turner Prize?December 3: THE INDEPENDENT :From Chris Ofili's elephant dung painting to Tracey Emin's infamous unmade bed, the Turner Prize has consistently provoked controversy and criticism. Until now... READ MORE
Jack Spicer believed his poems were dictated from the spirit worldDecember 3: WWW.BOOKFORUM.COM :In the summer of 1965, the poet Robin Blaser discovered his friend Jack Spicer lying comatose in the poverty ward at San Francisco General. The forty-year-old Spicer had passed out drunk in the elevator of his North Beach flat a few days before and was wheeled in... READ MORE