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The Staff Shelf: Penn Book Center

The Staff Shelf: Penn Book Center

What are booksellers reading?

By Interview with a Bookstore | February 23, 2016

There Is No Market-Driven Solution to Our Climate Catastrophe

There Is No Market-Driven Solution to Our Climate Catastrophe

Capitalism Cannot Solve the Problem It Created

By Paul Mason | February 22, 2016

Can Literature Heal the Scars of a Nation?

Can Literature Heal the Scars of a Nation?

Nayomi Munaweera Reports from Sri Lanka's Galle Literary Festival

By Nayomi Munaweera | February 22, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore:  Penn Book Center

Interview with a Bookstore: Penn Book Center

A Resource for Penn Students & Philadelphians Since 1962

By Interview with a Bookstore | February 22, 2016

How to Fictionalize the World's Greatest World Record Holder

How to Fictionalize the World's Greatest World Record Holder

In Which a Man Is Willingly Kicked 43 Times in the Groin

By Stephen Kelman | February 19, 2016

Fear and Loathing in NYC: Hunter S. Thompson Goes to Town

Fear and Loathing in NYC: Hunter S. Thompson Goes to Town

On the Anniversary of His Death, a Look at his life and crimes in the Big Apple

By Arvind Dilawar | February 19, 2016

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30 Books in 30 Days: Katherine A. Powers on T. J. Stiles' Custer's Trials

By Katherine A. Powers | February 19, 2016

How We Fictionalize Our Politics

By Tobias Carroll | February 18, 2016

The Women of Oscar Wilde

By Eleanor Fitzsimons | February 18, 2016

The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

Sixty Years Ago, at the Launch Party for a Literary Journal (Of Course)

By Belinda McKeon | February 17, 2016

When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

Emily Harnett on the Hard Art of the Death Memoir

By Emily Harnett | February 17, 2016

More Was Lost

More Was Lost

ELEANOR PERÉNYI

By Lit Hub Excerpts | February 17, 2016

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Aleksandar Tišma: “All my novels are autobiographical.”

By Charles Simic | February 16, 2016

What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying

What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying

Kiese Laymon on Justice, Honesty, and American Violence

By Kiese Laymon | February 16, 2016

"Seriously, This Is Insane." And Other Debate Reactions.

Translating the GOP and Democratic Debates into Plain English

By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf | February 16, 2016

The Staff Shelf: Lutyens & Rubinstein

The Staff Shelf: Lutyens & Rubinstein

What are booksellers reading?

By Interview with a Bookstore | February 16, 2016

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