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All spring and summer, we'll be hovering over the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web's breakthrough into mass popularity. This week presents another possible "birthday" date for the WWW craze ...

E. L. Konigsburg's Mixed-Up Files

by Levi Asher Sunday, April 21, 2013 06:58 pm

E. L. Konigsburg, author of "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler", has died at the age of 83 ...

Action Poetry: Spring 2013

by Levi Asher Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:15 pm

It's springtime! How about writing a poem?

The Great Lost Rock Memoir: The Autobiography by Chuck Berry

by Levi Asher Sunday, March 17, 2013 06:42 pm

It's fitting that the guy who singlehandedly invented rock and roll when he recorded a song called "Mabellene" at Chess studios in Chicago on May 21, 1955 would later become an early innovator in the rock memoir field.

J. M. Coetzee, Master of the Enigmatic Novel

by Levi Asher Monday, March 11, 2013 08:43 pm

Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee (Polish edition)

J. M. Coetzee's newest novel, out in the USA next month, is already causing a stir.

Our Friend the Literary Hedgehog

by Levi Asher Tuesday, March 5, 2013 08:39 pm

There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' ...

The Great Lost Rock Memoir: Poison Heart by Dee Dee Ramone

by Levi Asher Monday, February 25, 2013 06:10 pm

"Poison Heart", the pained memoir by Dee Dee Ramone of New York City's seminal punk band The Ramones.

Yoko Ono, Visionary

by Levi Asher Sunday, February 17, 2013 11:46 pm

The last time I saw Yoko Ono in concert, which was just a year ago, I was handed a small blue plastic puzzle piece in a small fabric bag as I entered the club ...

The Great Lost Rock Memoir: All The Rage by Ian McLagan

by Levi Asher Tuesday, February 12, 2013 07:06 pm

Ian McLagan doing the twist with the Small Faces

"All The Rage", a forgotten memoir by the great keyboard player Ian McLagan of the Small Faces.

Farewell to Clay January

by Levi Asher Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:38 pm

Farewell to an old friend of Litkicks, Clay January, aka "Lightning Rod", of Texas.

Shakespeare Villain, Found

by Levi Asher Monday, February 4, 2013 08:31 pm

The news that the remains of England's King Richard III have been positively identified in a car park in Leicester is a big deal for historians. It's an even bigger deal for Shakespeareans.

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