May 2012
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“Here’s a dirty secret: I like books.”
– Ben Samuels of Electric Literature at Huffington Post.
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“31 percent of the men who graduated Oxford in 1913 were killed.”
– On today’s Fresh Air, historian Adam Hochschild explains why WWI was different than other major conflicts: “It was different because it was the tradition in most of the major countries for upper-class young men to have military careers, and then it became those young captains and lieutenants.” (via...
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WatchOur pals at Fortnight Journal have a pretty impressive video series on the history of letterpress and typography.
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