TODAY: In 1959, writer, journalist, and amateur grocer Jeanette Winterson is born.
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- A goddamn good book is a goddamn good book: an interview with Sean H. Doyle. | Entropy Magazine
- In what is certain to shake up every Greatest Books list ever penned, Mariah Carey is publishing a picture book based on “All I Want for Christmas Is You” starring a little girl and a puppy. | GalleyCat
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