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If You Cry While Reading A Book, You Cry Alone (But That’s OK)

“All the analysis and theory in the world must finally bow before the incommunicable experience of reading literature.”

Recovering A Lost Typeface From Its Watery Grave

“I started looking into whether lead degrades in water, trying to find out why fisherman use lead weights and researching the composition of lead type, as I didn’t really know anything about the chemistry of it and wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to start looking for something that had rotted away.”

What Makes An Opera Last Forever?

“It’s comic and serious, entertaining and erudite, silly and thoughtful, emotional and mysterious, harrowing and uplifting, intimate and over-the-top — and the more times you see it, the more you’ll find in it and the more you’ll get out of it.”

How To Get Out Of Your Failed Ebook Service Gracefully

“Having managed to offload its online video service Blinkbox Movies to mobile operator TalkTalk, and Blinkbox Music to streaming business Guvera, Tesco has been desperately hunting for a buyer for Blinkbox Books. Last month there was much hope that Waterstones might take it over, and finally make a decisive step into the digital realm, but that bid ultimately failed.”

Watching The Grammys, Or Watching Twitter? Here Are A Few Live-Blog Choices

Here are but a few of the many, many, many news organization live blogs of tonight’s GRAMMY Awards. Billboard, Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Vox. And finally, the one place online to watch all of the commentary and snark and happiness and anger and fashion analysis and discussion of air kisses: Twitter’s #GRAMMYs hashtag.

But Wait: Boyhood, Not Birdman, Won The British Oscars (BAFTAs)

And in another surprise, Grand Budapest Hotel wins the most awards of the evening.

The Western Love Song Was Invented In Africa And The Middle East

“The qiyan, the singing female slaves of the Islamic world, invented the key elements of courtly love long before they were known in Europe. I have a whole shelf of books on troubadour love songs in front of me, and not one of them mentions these innovators.”

Artists Are Fleeing The Far Too Expensive London, Says Playwright

Simon Stephens: “The amount of young directors, writers, actors I know who are moving to Cardiff, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester … I think London could become like Manhattan: a very beautiful, empty place.”

Angry Archaeologists Take Over The Louvre Lobby, Allow Hundreds Of People To Enter Without Paying

“The protesters are demanding that preventative archaeology no longer be subject to the 2003 law. They chose the sunken Louvre lobby beneath I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid and the Cour Napoléon because it was the site of a major preventative archaeology project when the museum expanded in the 1980s.”

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