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...Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids...
...looked around the small, fluorescent-lit room, stacked full with tapes, headphones and large-buttoned tape players, that had been so difficult to find in the massive Chicago Public Library. Finally a woman emerged from a back room and asked who I was. I told her my name and the title of the book I was looking for. “You called about it, right?” she asked. I had called the main library number least a week earlier to find out if they had that book, and hadn’t realized after being transferred several...
...LATINO LIT: We hear that the Great Books Foundation is launching a three-year project designed to foster the discussion of Latino literature. The foundation plans to support existing Latino book groups and form new ones. ?Llego la hora...
...following days offer gentle climbs to passes with views of snow-capped peaks, visits to historic shrines and stays at more inns, some now museums. We buy cheap sushi lunches at small-town supermarkets. Each evening, stone lanterns, which once marked village boundaries, are lit to signal the day's end. Summits are adorned with stones carved with haiku, such as this passage left by Princess Kazonomiya in 1864 on her way to an arranged marriage, escorted by a retinue of 10,000: "As we rush through the pass I look back towards the capital and ponder the transience...
...night, the hazy roadside darkness is broken by a fluorescent-lit restaurant, its plastic tables and chairs idle; by an illuminated badminton court, its lines drawn in the dirt, its players immaculate in their whites; by an overturned lumber truck, its wheels still spinning. And finally, having finished a bag of snakefruit bought on the Dumai docks, I reach Medan, a typically crowded and polluted Indonesian city in a region that was the Deli Sultanate when the lofty sails of Zheng He's fleets darkened these skies...