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By Katie Sue Ambellan It’s a fact:  bookstores around the world are closing. In 2011, more than six bookstores in San Francisco closed, and that is not counting the liquidation of the massive book and media retailer, Borders. But in San Francisco, we still have amazing independent bookstores like City Lights Books and Books Inc. [...]

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The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive By Katie Sue Ambellan I love Steven Colbert.  A man who’s satire that knows no end, Colbert recently sat down with author Maurice Sendak—a man who’s endless imagination has inspired millions around the world—to talk about the one thing he hasn’t [...]

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By Reid Meadows Every New Year, we are confronted with the same dilemma: What must we change about ourselves in the upcoming year? Some of us lazily come up with a few ideas at the last second just to get the family off our back while others spend considerable time crafting a detailed plan of [...]

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By Byron Spooner I must have been exhausted from eight days straight at the Annual Book Sale or something because I also picked up SuperHeavy, Mick Jagger’s newest non-Stones effort. Speaking of aging rock stars embarrassing themselves…Jesus H.   Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Joss Stone, composer A. R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack) and, Son of Bob, Damian [...]

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Here we are, moving through the month of October.  The only month in the calendar to begin with the letter O. Incidentally, the letter O is the fourth most common letter in English language according to Wikipedia.  Why does that matter, you ask? Well, according to an article in the New Yorker, the frequency of [...]

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Check out this piece in today’s Chronicle on thriving branch libraries!

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Some people love her, others detest her.  Some like her books and hate the movies, but one thing is certain: everyone has an opinion about the big-eyed, curly haired author/director/actress/extraordinaire. The New York Times Magazine recently published a piece about the Los Angeles based Miranda July.  Since we at The Readers Review love word association, [...]

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For the past month, San Francisco based artist and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton has been going to the library a lot. She visited every floor, took detailed notes and even waited out front before it even opened. From all this hard work came a beautiful and inspiring art-essay for The Rumpus entitled, Meanwhile, the San Francisco [...]

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