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The Department of Justice vs. the Publishers: Nobody Wins

time.com (11 months and 1 day ago)

Jun 20, 2012

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This week I’m posting from the road, “the road” meaning San Francisco, where I’m touring to promote the release of my most recent novel in paperback. One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote [...] full story

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