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Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Browse through over 300 vintage book ads, from back in the day when the publishing industry took a gamble on anything. Some ads provide a first look at people who became great American classic authors, and some were only one-time wonders. As author Dwight Garner, a New York Times book critic and former editor at the New York Times Book Review, says: “Great books, like every other kind...
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Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
In "Read Me," Dwight Garner compiles a century of print ads for books, funny and formal, subtle and sensational. Garner is a longtime book critic at the New York Times, where he also has blogged at Paper Cuts. For his...
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NewWest.Net Boulder (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... the Roundup: How the boxer Rocky inspires writer Benjamin Percy, a vintage Cormac McCarthy ad in Dwight Garner's Read Me, and how books by women were left off a key best-of-the-year book list.
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... the Roundup: How the boxer Rocky inspires writer Benjamin Percy, a vintage Cormac McCarthy ad in Dwight Garner's Read Me, and how books by women were left off a key best-of-the-year book list.
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NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... the Roundup: How the boxer Rocky inspires writer Benjamin Percy, a vintage Cormac McCarthy ad in Dwight Garner's Read Me, and how books by women were left off a key best-of-the-year book list.
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Below Phil Campbell asks Novella Carpenter about her book, Farm City, which Dwight Garner calls “consistently involving” and “a serious, if tragicomic, meditation on raising and then killing your own animals.” Carpenter has a couple of events in New York City this week. Farm City is about my friend Novella Carpenter’s experiences as an “urban farmer”...
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements—startling and strange, beautiful and funny—that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century. New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together original ads for some of the most...
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NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Literature in a Digital Age2009 Brooklyn Book FestivalJohn Freeman; Dwight Garner; Sarah Schmellingwatch it online - 43 minutesLots more from this and other "parties and festivals" on C-Span2 BookTV online.
