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A Healthy Future
for Indigo Bookstores: Despite recent high-profile failures in
Canadian retail, Indigo CEO Heather Reisman said Monday that the market is
poised for a resurgence and her company is looking to grow.
Salon Talks to
Jonathan Galassi : The FSG publisher on his new novel—plus,
Jennifer Weiner and why Jonathan Franzen is a feminist.
Kafka
Manuscripts to National Library: An Israeli court has stripped
an Israeli family of a collection of Franz Kafka manuscripts, ruling that they
be transferred to the country's National Library.
Theodore Weesner
Dies at 79: Weesner, a novelist who mined his wayward youth for
the stuff of his celebrated first novel, 'The Car Thief,' died on Thursday at a
hospital near his home in Portsmouth, N.H.
Teachers Turn
Lockers Into Book Spines: A group of teachers and volunteers are
turning a hallway at Biloxi Junior High School in Mississippi into an “Avenue
of Literature” by painting the 189 unused lockers to look like the spines of
popular books.
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