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BOOKISH (7#) -

# Nick Shields writes about a new book--
Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand:
Curious Adventures of a CSI. [BS]

# C Max Magee writes about newspaperman/author Pete Dexter with links. Dexter has just had a new book published called Paper Trains which is a compilation of his newspaper columns and magazine articles.

# The Enfield Poltergeist:
a 30-year silence is broken.

# Sleepless in Saudi: Al Watan has reported that the Mutawa raided the Riyadh Int'l Book Fair which opened Tuesday in KSA. [MET]

# Blogger Lameen Souag reports an
effort to destroy the Harusi language.

# New to me: Safrang Blog
by an Afghani grad student.

# BAGHDAD BOOK BOMB: Exploded today near the Mutanabi book market with a second blast on nearby Bab al Muadham St a few moments later. [SKY]

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