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August 16, 2005
Shorties
Bookslut's Michael Schaub is searching for rock and roll novels. Help out a friend of LHB and post any you think of in the comments here.
New at Archie McPhee: Jane Austen and Charles Dickens action figures.
The BBC offers a Blur vs. Oasis timeline.
Access Atlanta profiles Paste magazine.
"I haven't read a book in my life," Beckham confesses. "I don't have the time." However, the 31-year-old former Spice Girl does shrug off suggestions that she is a philistine. "I prefer listening to music, although I do love fashion magazines."
Memphis radio station WEVL is now webcasting.
August is "Rappers I Know Month" at FWMJ.
Author Nick Hornby tells of his visit with a prison reading group.
The High Down prison reading group is in many ways like any reading group, except with worse teeth: there is a genuine enthusiasm for books, and the prospect and deadline of a monthly meeting has clearly encouraged its members to read stuff they wouldn't otherwise have bothered with.
Drew at Toothpaste for Dinner's book, Toothpaste for Dinner: Hipsters, Hamsters and Other Pressing Issues, is now available.
