Book News: Traditional Stories, Modern Librarians

A report from the National Storytelling Festival.

A short history of your keyboard’s escape key: a comforting “get-me-the-hell-out-of-here key” and our first line of defense against the Singularity.

Nathan O. Marsh’s twisted ABC primer, “Alphabet Apocrypha.”

“How should a novelist feel on seeing his work translated, completely, not just into another medium, but also


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