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Topic: Readers and Reading

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The "girl-topia" of BookCon

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Phillip Roth, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo (AP/Joe Tabbacca/Hachette/Stephen Chernin/Photo montage by Salon)

Why we should write in books

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The threat to America's soul

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Don't deny Lovecraft's racism

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Don't make reading a chore

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Stephen King (Reuters/Mike Segar)

Smartphones save literature

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Franco Moretti (Verso Books)

Learning from failed books

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Is reading antisocial?

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Stephen King (AP/Francois Mori)

100 years of bestsellers

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Robin Williams in "Dead Poets Society"

Is the literary world elitist?

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Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace (AP/flickr/Steve Rhodes)

What makes a book a classic

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Made by "Middlemarch"

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Can you make kids love books?

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Crowd-tested fiction

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Readers for sale

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Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Company/Beowulf Sheehan)

Tartt on "The Goldfinch"

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The web's weirdest flamewar

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A Netflix for e-books arrives

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Greatest literary takedowns

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Will reading make you rich?

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Werewolf erotica behind bars!

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Literary fiction is boring!

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Ian McEwan (Reuters/Nir Elias)

Sneaky author tricks

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Back to the Round Table

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