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on this internet of ours, we’ve found:

a long-ish, facinating conversation at The Reading Experience about the place of difficult fiction in these states, to which Josh Harmon thoughtfully responds;

pix of new takes on the look of books (some oval, some hairsuite); & more here;

the culture-saving abebooks now hosts a blog (about time y’all joined us!), which offers their tribute to Thomas M. Disch (our own thoughts below);

more from the realms of the fantastical: Justin Hickey’s new notes

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on Final Crisis are now online;

our friend Imani White (going by the name A.I. White in our webpages) spreads the wealth to First Magazine, reviewing Stefan Zweig’s surprising page-turner, The Post-Office Girl;

one Open Letters contributor reviews another at Flim Forum’s forum

online;

at Fanzine, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jacques Tati’s overlooked classic Trafic;

at Quid Plura? A Night at the Roxbury video , Jeff Sypeck continues his Arthurian quest to read and review all of Lloyd Alexander’s non-Prydain novels;

it’s worth looking back at a prescient and mordantly funny article Mohammed Hanif, the author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes, wrote about Pervez Musharraf in 2007;

Brick download a striking take on the persistent myth of the Princes in the Tower on Susan Higginbotham’s blog;

a website to expand your American music experience a thousandfold;

the inimitable Bruce Wagner namedrops (the “grim reaper kewpies the Olsens” get a shout-out);

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& where they write, those writers we look for–a special photo-anthology at the Guardian.