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01.19.2009 12:46 pm

Forget the humanities - unless you want to be president

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

How ironic that the two most-emailed items from Sunday’s New York Times are both about literature - and that they give almost completely opposite impressions of the current value of great books.

Stanley Fish writes that tenured humanities professors are in…

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01.12.2009 11:34 am

Great news: study shows more people reading

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

As theater critic Judith Newmark reported Sunday in her story about the opening of the stage version of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the National Endowment for the Arts has good news about reading: More people are reading literature.

 The NEA officially released its report…

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