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Did you ever think that anyone writing a food blog could get published and end up on the Today Show? Clotilde Dusoulier, the woman behind the blog Chocolate and Zucchini, the best food blog in the world (in my opinion) recently published her first book and is now on a book tour in the US [...]

A French website has been offering books in English and French, free to download. The site, sami.is.free.fr, has Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and many others.

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One of my favorite writers, Kurt Vonnegut, died at the age of 84 in New York City. I love his novels (Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, among others) and short stories. I really enjoyed his first novel Player Piano, published in 1952. In Player Piano, Vonnegut makes fun of corporate culture and office politics, five [...]

Wallace Stevens is my favorite poet. Here is a brilliant short poem entitled “The Worms at Heaven’s Gate” from Harmonium:
Out of the tomb, we bring Badroulbadour
Within our bellies, we her chariot.
Here is an eye. And here are, one by one,
The lashes of that eye and its white lid.
Here is the cheek on which that lid [...]