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March 12, 2010

Ask a Book Question #78 (Resources to Get Started in Publishing) 9

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“What I’d like to ask you is if you have any reading suggestions for finding out about the ins and outs of book and magazine publishing.”

January 19, 2010

Ask a Book Question #77 (The Red and the Black in Translation) 5

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Modern Library’s rather sexy cover of translator Burton Raffel’s The Red and the Black testifies to his approach.

January 11, 2010

Ask a Book Question #76 (Good Readers, Good Readings) 7

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Suggestions for readers who really own a stage.

September 4, 2009

Ask a Book Question: #75 (Murakami and Books to Read in Japan) 9

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Murakami’s obsession with the West, rather than honing his eye for dissecting his own culture, has led him to cut it out of his stories almost entirely.

August 16, 2009

Ask a Book Question: #74 (Just One Book) 32

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If you could read just one novel, what would it be?

June 9, 2009

Ask a Book Question: #73 (Tuesday New Releases) 7

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Poornima writes in with this question: Why is it that new hardcovers seem to always release on a Tuesday? I have noticed this pattern a lot and I wonder if there is a reason. The Tuesday release date is an industry standard, and not just for books; new CDs and DVDs are almost invariably released [...]