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		<title>Ray Bradbury Gives In, &#8216;Fahrenheit 451&#8242; To Be Released As An Ebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think a science fiction author would be one of the first to embrace emerging technology, like ebooks, for example. But there are some holdouts. One of them has been famed Sci-Fi author Ray Bradbury. I wrote about him back in 2009, mostly about how much he loathed the internet. Well finally, Bradbury fans can [...]


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		<title>No Fear Shakespeare makes me very afraid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when I was in school and had to read Shakespeare, we really had to read Shakespeare (we also had to walk to school in 5 feet of snow, uphill both ways. Kidding, I&#8217;m not that old). The most help I had was the Cliffs Notes. Definitely no internet. The text was also given to [...]


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		<title>New Shakespeare play may have been discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the Bard might have written more than his already prolific canon of plays. A Shakespeare scholar from the University of Nottingham is fairly certain of the confirmation a new play was written by Shakespeare. According this article from the AP via Yahoo! News: After years of literary investigation, a professor at the University [...]


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		<title>Scribner releases modified version of Hemingway novel &#8216;A Moveable Feast&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first read about Scribner&#8217;s plans to release a modified version of Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s A Moveable Feast (aff link) in this New York Times OpEd back in July, but have only now gotten around to writing about it. This story brings up a lot of questions about what publishers owe to the authors and novels [...]


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		<title>The intersection of tattoos and literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love literature, there is no doubt about that, but I don&#8217;t think I love literature enough to get it tattooed on my skin. Yet some people have done exactly that and these literary tattoos are the subject of a printed anthology that a few brave editors have decided to put together. People get all [...]


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		<title>Spicing up classic literature with zombies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you turn a boring classic novel into something new and exciting? Add a bunch of brain-hungry zombies, of course. At least, that is the approach that author Seth Grahame-Smith took with his novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (aff link). The novel takes the popular Jane Austen story and turns it upside-down with [...]


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		<title>The verdict is in: Shakespeare a fraud!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get too excited. The &#34;verdict&#34; in question is the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens who, according to this Wall Street Journal article, says Shakespeare didn&#8217;t write all those plays and poems after all: Justice Stevens, who dropped out of graduate study in English to join the Navy in 1941, is [...]


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		<title>More on politicians, presidents, and literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I&#8217;m surprised at who is also a fellow literature junkie, no matter how low a politician they might be. Case in point: Yesterday I wrote this post about Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his penchant for quoting poetry during press conferences. Well today, the Chicago Tribune caught on to his literary musings in this [...]


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		<title>&#8220;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button&#8221; has always been a great story!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<title>Milton&#8217;s &#8220;Paradise Lost&#8221; gets modern translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Vertrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I found this interesting editorial in the New York Times by Stanley Fish (who, I might add is the dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at my alma mater, University of Illinois at Chicago). In his piece, he writes about a new &#8220;translation&#8221; of John Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost, which basically [...]


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