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This week is Banned Books week, the website has a list of events happening in cities around North America or you can celebrate on your own by reading something controversial! You can even get a flaming bookmark to help get in the mood…

The Guardian embarks on a perfect pub crawl though the best literary watering holes from Patrick Hamilton’s The Midnight Bell to the Korova Milk Bar from Clockwork Orange…

Sad news about Paul Newman’s death at the weekend. I feel he probably did this disaster movie for the money. I always thought Cool Hand Luke was a great film.

The Guardian has the top 10 books about Nelson. (Ahh, the good old days when Britain ruled the world….) I like the sound of What’s Left of Nelson by Leo Marriott.

The Daily Mail carried a lengthy feature on Saturday about the origins of The Wind in the Willows. Talk about a dysfunctional family! Unable to fit in with boys his own age, Alastair (Grahame’s son) was removed from Rugby school after just six weeks and sent to Eton where he suffered a nervous breakdown. In [...]

Staff from AbeBooks.com will be manning a booth this Sunday (Sept 28) at the annual Word on the Street festival in Vancouver, BC. We’ll be at booth T7a. Please drop by and see us – Shauna, Michael and Seth will be there from our marketing department and they’d love to meet you. Word on the [...]

Economic crisis! Stock market turmoil! Credit crunch! Bail out rescue package! Things are looking bad…..America’s seen it all before and it was called the Great Depression. Check out this 1939 first edition of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath offered for sale by Between the Covers – one of the best rare booksellers in the [...]

Place the books on top of each other and make a sentence.

I like this article from today’s Guardian about Stephen Shore’s photography book A Road Trip Journal, which is a personal record of 1970s Americana. When Shore set off in 1972 he decided to make a photographic diary of the journey, to record “every meal I ate every person I met, every bed I slept in; [...]

American Psycho could be made into a musical reports the NY Times. What an excellent idea – doesn’t the book contain torture, rape, mutilation, cannibalism, and necrophilia? I can just imagine the Japanese tourists lining up to buy tickets on Broadway for that one.