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She hunts with eagles

April 16, 2014Alma Alexander

A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia – Photo by Asher Svidensky The Kazakhs of the Altai mountain range in western Mongolia are the only people that hunt with golden eagles,…Continue readingShe hunts with eagles

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Seattle bookstores soar…

April 14, 2014Alma Alexander

…and embrace an Old Nemesis: Amazon.com Seattle ranks as the country’s second-most literate big city, behind Washington, D.C., as measured by things like the number of bookstores, library resources, newspaper…Continue readingSeattle bookstores soar…

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Books as weapons

April 11, 2014Alma Alexander

CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ against the USSR A scene from the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago, based on Boris Pasternak’s epic novel. Declassified documents show that the CIA used Doctor Zhivago,…Continue readingBooks as weapons

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Smart critters in literature

April 9, 2014Alma Alexander

Top 10 books about intelligent animals From Watership Down to Animal Farm: Author Karen Joy Fowler selects for The Guardian 10 novels filled with anthropomorphic frailties and fantasies ‘Watership…Continue readingSmart critters in literature

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College of Sidekicks

April 7, 2014Alma Alexander

Commencement Address to the College of Sidekicks and Secondary Characters Dear graduating class, As a writer, as someone who was there at your emergence, I am so very happy to…Continue readingCollege of Sidekicks

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50 Best Southern Novels

April 4, 2014Alma Alexander

The American South has long carried the stigma of poverty, racism, and anti-intellectualism, Tyler Coates writes at Flavorwire. Yet the region has also produced a disproportionate number of intellectuals, poets,…Continue reading50 Best Southern Novels

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Food In The Hobbit

April 2, 2014Alma Alexander

The Shire was an idealized version of the rural England of Tolkien’s childhood, Recipewise explains, and gives us some remarkable recipes for Gandalf’s tea party. An Unexpected Party – Image…Continue readingFood In The Hobbit

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How many have you read?

March 31, 2014Alma Alexander

Arianna Rebolini of BuzzFeed has chosen 102 of the “Greatest Books By Women” and asks how many of them you’ve read so far. I have read 34 of them and…Continue readingHow many have you read?

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Based on Real People

March 28, 2014Alma Alexander

When Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road, Stacy Conradt tells us at at Mental Floss, he was really writing about his own cross-country exploits with his Beat Generation buddies. Neal…Continue readingBased on Real People

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Reading While Female

March 26, 2014Alma Alexander

(Stokkete/Shutterstock) Women need to trust that they know what’s good, what’s bad, and what serves them intellectually in order to reject or reclaim the books in their lives, Sady Doyle…Continue readingReading While Female

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