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Paula Fox Dies
At 93: Fox, whose work illuminated lives filled with loss,
dislocation, and abandonment, died last Wednesday in Brooklyn.
The Forgotten
Crime Writers: The British Library is working to bring forgotten
male crime writers back into print, after they were eclipsed in their own
Golden Age by women.
Arion Press and
M & H Type: The Mackenzie & Harris Type foundry,
established in 1915, finds that making a typeface by hand, old-fashioned as it
is, needs no perfecting.
Grace Paley, the
Saint of Seeing: Paley’s literary approach is to make a dazzling
verbal surface that doesn’t so much linearly represent the world as remind us
of its dazzle.
The Philosopher
Queen: Rebecca Solnit: Solnit is a favorite of the literati,
penning essays that move between the political and the personal, the
intellectual and the earthy.
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