Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Director of Digital Humanities, Michigan State University

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Why doesn’t Booknotes sound more like this? (Via Bookslut.)

[UPDATE: Crap. And here I thought I was asking a question that was snarky but at least original. Note to self: read all the way to end of blog entry before blogging in.]

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