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Okay, I made up the last part, but the librarians aren’t responding terribly well to Ashcroft’s peace offering from last week. PW NewsLine writes: “The FBI has a history, which Attorney General Ashcroft is ignoring, of violating civil liberties,” says Chris Finan, president of American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. …

On his fence-mending tour of the nation last week Attorney General John Ashcroft said librarians were “hysterical” about the U.S.A. Patriot Act. PW Daily reports: During one speech, he said, “Do we at the Justice Department really care what you are reading? No. The law enforcement community has no interest …

The focus of the most recent trade collection of Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor series, Unsung Hero (Dark Horse), may initially throw readers coming to Pekar’s comics from the currently released American Splendor flick. Instead of the autobiographical thoughts and travails of Cleveland’s most famous file clerk, Hero recounts the Vietnam …

Okay, it’s a little bit creepy and obsessive, but it’s mostly sweet and touching and another set of uses for the artifacts of our culture – that’s OUR culture, not the songwriters, the singers, the record labels – OURS: Kenneth Roberts is an old man with a broken heart and …

If you read (and you read this), your input is sought: Hello, I’m an author working on a book about the importance of reading. I’m trying to gather information about reading people’s reading habits and and how it impacts our lives for use in the book. I’ve posted a short …

Don't be deceived by their sweet faces, these Bears are evil.

Volume One in a classic comic strip reprint series.

Blazingly keen mind, excellent writer, blogger to the stars, and internationally known hottie, Virginia Postrel has a new book out today (thanks for the reminder InstaGlenn), The Substance of Style. In addition to a nice book description here: From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye …

Speaks to Salon from the airport: [Puts the phone in the tray and it goes through the X-ray machine. It is quiet in there, with occasional sounds of fumbling. Clatter as Franken picks up the phone again.] OK, so we were talking about why you get under the skin of …

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. and so many other great orators and civil rights leader spoke of the desire for true equality. I have been listening to NPR’s Tavis Smiley show the past few days as …