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September 26, 2012 | 1

“‘Rap is poetry,’ Jay-Z says, ‘and a good MC is a good poet.'” Over at n + 1, a look at the musician’s Decoded and the phenomenon of rappers as writers.

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Lydia Millet, Dark Princess of Love

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March 13, 2013

Lydia Millet’s most recent novel, Magnificence, is the third in a trilogy, and a reminder of what a significant body of work she’s been building over the last decade.  The Point offers the best overview of that work you’re likely to find anywhere. Millet’s “equal parts” Ben Marcus and Jonathan Franzen, writes Tom Dibblee, “but really she’s her own thing.”

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Beautifying Books

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December 5, 2011 | 2

As e-books gain market share, publishers are gussying up book designs. Free Press vice president and publisher Martha K. Levin says, “the message [is] that even if you’re buying 90 percent of your books on your e-reader, this is the one that you want to have on your bookshelf.” The article highlights 1Q84 as an example of a successfully well-designed physical object, but if you haven’t seen a copy, check out Chip Kidd’s discussion of his work on the book.

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