Topic: Desmond Tutu

Jorge Luis Borges' Old Doodle; Amanda Knox's Prison Memoir

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Today in publishing and literature: HarperCollins shelled out "close to $4 million) for the former exchange student's jailhouse diaries, a Toronto library thinks it has a lost piece of correspondence from Jorge Luis Borges, and the origins of a very specific Cormac McCarthy word choice.

By Ted Mann

Dec 17, 2011

Desmond Tutu Sides with the Occupy Movement (Sort Of)

The retired archbishop said Trinity Church should work with protesters now camping on its vacant lot. Then he clarified: protesters shouldn't break the law, either.

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