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Today in books: Independent bookstores are taking a page out of Amazon's and wading into the world of publishing, a look at Iran's literary prizes, and a very thorough guide to the best books coming out over the next year.
When you think about it, there really is nothing to like about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Today in books: Stieg Larsson's longtime girlfriend isn't a fan of Rooney Mara or H&M's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo clothes, season's greetings from The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, and David Foster Wallace's vocabulary sheet from 1997.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Mega producer Scott Rudin is spitting mad at The New Yorker's film critic David Denby for his freshly published review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, two weeks before the film's release and ahead of the time-honored "embargo" studios ask critics to honor.
Meet the Open Source Center, the unassumingly-named CIA offshoot that spies on the world through "pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms -- anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly," the Associated Press's Kimberly Dozier reports.
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