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The Revolution Will Be Transcribed

Revolution is in the air. Radio Prague casts a backward glance at the Velvet Revolution — a period of significant change for the written word. Vasily Grossman understands what it means to revolt. After all, his mother country is responsible for one of history’s cataclysmic political coups.  A review of a heady novel about Pop culture in The Second Pass, the art of criticism is reexamined in Bookslut, and Amos Oz turns the novella on its head. Other revolutionary topics include: The advent of noir and smoking pot, memoirs dethroning fiction as the genre of choice, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s papers enter the digital age. Readers of the world, unite! — Kevin Murphy

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