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...Delusion By Richard Dawkins Houghton Mifflin...
Harvard Bookstore pulls yet another fun trick out of its sleeve by cohosting a spelling bee (creatively dubbed “the bee”) with the Brattle Theatre and Houghton Mifflin Company. Looking for an ego boost? The “All-Ages Bee” (read: little kids) starts at 6:00 p.m., followed by the classic film “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.” At 9:30 things get adult when the grown-up competition begins, complete with a beer and five syllable words...
...cohesive Middle-earth world of men, dwarves, elves and orcs has left fans rabid for [an error occurred while processing this directive] any scraps of the voluminous unpublished writings the master of myth and fantasy left behind. So hobbitheads worldwide broke out flagons of mead in celebration after Houghton Mifflin's announcement that, next spring, it plans to publish Children of Hurin, a tale that Tolkien tinkered with throughout his lifetime but never finished. The story follows two human siblings and their attempt to evade their tragic fate by overcoming a heavenly curse. Abandoned and resumed several times by Tolkien...
Starting July 13, The Office will begin streaming 10 2-min. "webisodes" through nbc.com Think of them as The Office, the downsized version. The cast is smaller: the plot follows the supporting characters of the Dunder-Mifflin paper company's accounting department as they track down $3,000 missing from the books. Most important, from the network's standpoint, the budget is smaller. "I don't even know if we had a budget," says executive producer Greg Daniels. "It's more like an extra fee." Chalk up another irony for The Office: you have a big year, and the boss...
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Houghton Mifflin; 232 pages; $20) couldn't be more different from We Are On Our Own, yet it shares a focus on one parent's story. Bechdel zooms in on her enigmatic, controlling father, who, we learn early on, was an apparent suicide during the author's late teens. Now in her forties, Bechdel has gained a strong reputation for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a long-running weekly strip currently up to its eleventh collected edition. For Fun Home, her first long-form work, Bechdel has created...