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Continue reading →: No Seriously: The Plague
Eoin Purcell I was getting on the Dart to travel back from Sydney Parade to Glasthule when I stumbled across this rather exceptional story in Metro*: A second man has died of pneumonic plague in northwest China, in an outbreak that prompted authorities to lock down a town where about…
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Continue reading →: On Fungibility
Eoin Purcell Why the future will bite Today’s lesson in why the future is neither necessarily a nice place comes in the form of this nasty headline and story I spotted in The Bookseller: A total of 11 assistant editor posts have gone at Taylor & Francis imprint Europa Publications,…
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Continue reading →: Fidra asks: What ten books would you love to see in a bookshop?
Eoin Purcell Fidra Books posted a query on their blog today designed to help them figure out what books to order for their new store: We’re resigned to the fact that we will open with a stock that has gaps and biases and it would be hard not to –…
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Continue reading →: The FT has a really nice piece on Hidden City Rivers
Eoin Purcell What a week I had intended to write more on hidden city rivers but then events interrupted and I got waylaid. In any case, the FT has a wonderful article on another hidden river, The Fleet in London: The Fleet became a noxious ditch and, in 1679, the…
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Continue reading →: Hire me, I am a man of leisure
Eoin Purcell Why I have so much time Yesterday I was laid off by Mercier Press. I’m not bitter or angry, sometimes companies have to make decisions that no one likes but that are necessary given the economic climate. It helped that I had commissioned a list for almost the…
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