Bookmarks: Encyclopedia Brown, Jonathan Ames, and Michael Turner

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November 27, 2009 | 4:21 PM | By Zoe Whittall

Kate Sutherland, author of Kate’s Book Blog, writes about Encyclopedia Brown – specifically how the series taught her to think like a lawyer, and how the tough character of Brown’s sidekick, Sally Kimball, broke down stereotypes for girls in 1963
Galleycat highlights a new book by Iraqi blogger: Iraqi Girl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq
The Guardian on a new/old poetic form, the Englynion
For our American friends, here’s a Thanksgiving journal by Jonathan Ames
Stacey-May Fowles interviews Michael Turner about his latest book, 8 X 10, on The Walrus

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November 30, 2009 | 11:51 am angel guerra says:

The Turner Effect – not naming names, bullshit detectors, prizes within the narrative, theories of the desire of things – sounds like the toolkit of a Cracker Jack salesman.

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