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Here are the latest news from the Committee to Save the New York Public Library: Dear friend, The Committee to Save the New York Public Library has just issued “The NYPL Strikes Out,” a point-by-point refutation of claims made by the New York Public Library administration’s document: “Setting the Record Straight.” The NYPL distributed this [...]

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…on the Northern Line between Euston & Mornington Crescent on our way to an excellent fish restaurant in Camden town (Simply Fish, 4 Inverness Street). Could help but bemoan the absence. one block further North of the great Compendium Bookshop, my home away from home in the seventies.  

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from The Committee to Save the New York Public Library: Dear friend, Our website is now up! The Committee to Save the New York Public Library is online at www.savenypl.org Now we need your help.  Please spread the word about our site and the threat facing the 42nd Street Library: via social media, via twitter, via [...]

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[I too am traveling, so just forwarding this post from Arab Literature (in English): New post on Arabic Literature (in English) Best of ArabLit: The ‘Rules’ for Translatorsby mlynxqualey In 2011 and 2012, ArabLit ran a series of “rules” for literary translators. More than 20 literary translators participated. In no particular order:   David Colmer (Dutch-English) Judith [...]

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Check out the new issue of  Numéro Cinq which offers a range of interesting materials, among them: The General Indifference of Sand: Poems — Jean Portante Translated by Pierre JorisThe first poem begins:   THE DESERT Le désert compta ses rides et l’aigle et le faucon répandirent, aussitôt la nouvelle. — Edmond Jabès it is due [...]

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