"Dog famous for balancing novels on his head shows off skills at world's oldest bookshop." (via Guinness World Records)
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The New York Public Library recommended titles by and about "women who shaped New York City."
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"Isaac Asimov reviews George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and calls it 'not science fiction, but a distorted nostalgia for a past that never was.' " (via Open Culture)