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Beaufort Books — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:51:11 +0000

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From Our Beau House To Yours – Book Philanthropy

Beaufort Books — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:21:15 +0000

While reading Edgar Allan Poe, rather defensively, as I came home to Brooklyn last night on the L train, a young man (ok, let’s say a hipster with an MA in English Lit) asked politely what I was reading. I was faced with a predicament. Do I ignore this (despite what must have been a hipster parody Halloween costume rehearsal) presentable young fellow who was clearly not a subway lunatic, law and order psychopath, or seller of illegal drugs? My non-New York roots said clearly, well that’s just rude. So I answered, rather defensively, Poe. He then said a pretty decent question in my book (yay “book” pun):

“Do you like poetry?”

Me: “Never heard of the stuff (read: lie).”

“What enchanting lies! Here’s a book of poems, take it, it’s good.”

Me: “Um…”

He got off at the next stop while I profusely claimed I couldn’t accept this gift. Now, while my crazy radar went off like crazy, as it does in NY, I thought: well now that’s pretty cool, man. It was an Italian translation of Umberto Saba, and is still in my totebag. In the future I think I’ll be more prone to impulsive fits of literary kindness in the big city. Turn to your neighbor, put on your best smile, a philanthropic book exchange in a looming misanthropic winter!

-Nikki-Lee

From Our Beau House To Yours – Fox is Watching Out for Your Kid’s Mind

Beaufort Books — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:03:57 +0000

As many of us returned to school last week, we now find ourselves lining up at the university bookstore buying books that we’ll read for four months and 1. turn the book into a Kwanzaa/Christmas/Hanukkah gift in December 2. keep around to make you look smarter 3. change your life and be kept in the back pocket of your corduroys.

If you were like me and spent Labor day weekend with your very-conservative-older-distant relatives, you may have watched Fox news a lot, and Fox has a few important warnings about university textbooks. The top back-to-school story was the radically democratic indoctrination in most, if not all, college textbooks. Unfortunately as a (18-25 voter) student you cannot do anything about the textbook but you can petition to get the professor fired, or bring the book’s liberal brainwashing content to the attention of the dean of studies–or my personal favorite–ask your campus religious authority for advice and suggestions on reading alternatives.

Politics aside, what’s worse? The right to publish without censorship, or the right for everyone to get an “unbiased,” fair education (if you can pay for college that is). Fox believes that if anyone can spot bias when they see it Fox can, and that these textbooks are bad for America.

The solution though not apparent at first, is obvious: they should just make me editor of all college textbooks.

-Nikki-Lee